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Stereochemical course of the enzymic amination of chloro- and bromo- fumaric acid by 3-methylaspartate ammonia-lyase

✍ Scribed by Mahmoud Akhtar; Mark A Cohen; David Gani


Book ID
104227614
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1987
Tongue
French
Weight
223 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


Enzymic amination of chloro-and bromo-fumaric acid using 3-methylaspartate ammonia-lyase in the presence of ammonia leads to the formation of 3-chloro-and 3-bromoaspartic acid respectively;

the absolute configuration of each product is (R) at C-2 and (S) at C-3.

3-Methylaspartate

ammonia-lyase (EC 4.3.1.2) catalyses the reversible aa-elimination of ammonia from (2S,3S)-3-methylaspartic acid to give mesaconic acid, 1 Scheme 1. It is known that the enzyme is also capable of catalysing the deamination of (2S)-aspartic acid and some