Biocatalytic synthesis of the Green Note trans-2-hexenal in a continuous-flow microreactor

Morten M.C.H. Van Schie, Tiago Pedroso De Almeida, Gabriele Laudadio, Florian Tieves, Elena Fernández-Fueyo, Timothy Noël*, Isabel W.C.E. Arends, Frank Hollmann

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Abstract

The biocatalytic preparation of trans-hex-2-enal from trans-hex-2-enol using a novel aryl alcohol oxidase from Pleurotus eryngii (PeAAOx) is reported. As O2-dependent enzyme PeAAOx-dependent reactions are generally plagued by the poor solubility of O2 in aqueous media and mass transfer limitations resulting in poor reaction rates. These limitations were efficiently overcome by conducting the reaction in a flow-reactor setup reaching unpreceded catalytic activities for the enzyme in terms of turnover frequency (up to 38 s-1) and turnover numbers (more than 300000) pointing towards preparative usefulness of the proposed reaction scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)697-703
Number of pages7
JournalBeilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Mar 2018

Keywords

  • Alcohol oxidase
  • Alcohol oxidation
  • Aldehyde
  • Flow chemistry

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