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Kinetic resolutions of racemic amines and alcohols catalyzed by an industrial glutaryl-7-aminocephalosporanic acid acylase with unexpected broad substrate specificity

✍ Scribed by Stefano Raimondi; Luca Forti; Daniela Monti; Sergio Riva


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
202 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0957-4166

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✦ Synopsis


An industrial glutaryl-7-aminocephalosporanic acid acylase (GAR) possesses a significant broad substrate specificity that crosses over the usual cephalosporanic skeleton. Enantioselective amidase and even esterase activities have been observed with all the glutarates of racemic substrates investigated, with a stereopreference for the (S)-enantiomer. The different physical-chemical properties of reagents and products allow their easy separation by solvent extraction, avoiding cumbersome chromatography or distillation processes during reaction work-up.