Publication Date:
1993-04-16
Description:
The remarkable specificity of an antibody molecule has been used to accomplish highly selective functional group transformations not attainable by current chemical methods. An antibody raised against an amine-oxide hapten catalyzes the reduction of a diketone to a hydroxyketone with greater than 75:1 regioselectivity for one of two nearly equivalent ketone moieties. The antibody-catalyzed reaction is highly stereoselective, affording the hydroxyketone in high enantiomeric excess. Similarly, the reduction of ketones containing branched and aryl substituents, including the highly symmetrical 1-nitrophenyl-3-phenyl-2-propanone, was enantioselective. The simple strategy presented herein may find general applicability to the regio- and stereoselective reduction of a broad range of compounds.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hsieh, L C -- Yonkovich, S -- Kochersperger, L -- Schultz, P G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1993 Apr 16;260(5106):337-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10049109" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Antibodies, Catalytic/*chemistry
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Antibodies, Monoclonal/chemistry
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Haptens
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Ketones/*chemistry
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Kinetics
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Propiophenones/chemistry
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Stereoisomerism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
