Selective enzymatic epoxidation of dienes: generation of functional enantiomerically enriched diene monoepoxy monomers

✍ Scribed by Shanghui Hu; Pankaj Gupta; Ashok K Prasad; Richard A Gross; Virinder S Parmar

• Book ID: 104251844
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 116 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)01519-8

✦ Synopsis

Enantiomerically enriched diene monoepoxides were selectively synthesized using oxidases from Pseudomonas sp. and chloroperoxidase from Caldariomyces fumago. These monoepoxides are useful monomers for generating functional chiral polymeric materials.