Abstract:The development of mild, efficient, and enantioselective methods for preparing chiral building blocks from simple, renewable carbon units has been a long‐term goal of the sustainable chemical industry. Mandelate derivatives are valuable pharmaceutical intermediates and chiral resolving agents, but their manufacture relies heavily on highly toxic cyanide. Herein, we report (S)‐4‐hydroxymandelate synthase (HmaS)‐centered biocatalytic cascades for the synthesis of mandelates from benzaldehydes and glycine. We sho… Show more
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