In this work, we demonstrate a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method for racemic amide and lipase interaction as a first-pass design method in the enzymatic kinetic resolution of amines. As a novel adaptation of commonly used protein-ligand screening NMR methodologies, this approach relies upon a lipase-amide interaction wherein the time-consuming is reduced drastically and new insights are produced during the development of biocatalysis reactions.
Keywords: STD NMR, biocatalysis, enzymatic kinetic resolution, amines
IntroductionNowadays, the development of new methods for preparing chiral organic compounds is a major goal of synthetic organic chemists 1 due recognized importance of chirality in biological processes by differences in affinity that each enantiomer presents for receptors and/ or enzymes. 2 Biocatalysis, that consists in the use of enzymes as catalysts, is one of the most efficient routes to enantiopure compounds. 3 The growth of biocatalysis is because of the production and discovery of new enzymes and applications in a wide variety of chemical reactions. 4 The design and optimization of biocatalytic reactions are based on the same rules as traditional organic reactions, such as temperature, pH, substrate and other features. However, the insights about how these parameters affect the performance of enzymatic reaction are a harder task. These difficulties are inserted into any field in which employs biological systems. Furthermore, the evaluation of enzymes that catalyze new organic reactions is a complex activity and time consuming, requiring a tedious labor intensive process that is generally referred as an enantiomeric excess (ee), turnover number (TON), yield (%), time (hours or days) and experimental conditions.The enzymatic reaction requires an interaction of active site of the enzyme to the substrate. In this context, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become a powerful technique to advance studies of enzyme-substrate (proteinligand) interactions.5 Numerous NMR techniques have been used for characterizing these complexes. One technique that has exhibited promise for rapid screening, the saturation transfer difference (STD), utilizes cross relaxation.
6STD NMR consists of applying a selective radio frequency pulse to a macromolecule at a resonance where no ligand signals are present. The magnetization is transferred to the bound ligands by spin-diffusion. 7 Moreover, STD NMR allows the combination with almost any type of NMR experiment enabling a variety of investigations.In this short report, an investigation was carried out to evaluate whether amide-lipase complexes could be detected by NMR via the monitoring of changes in the STD experiment and relaxation behavior 8 for design the enzymatic kinetic resolution of organic amines by lipases (Scheme 1). The amines compounds have been chosen due to their great importance in biocatalysis 9 and especially in the pharmaceutical industry since a huge number of molecule drug candidates have nitrogen atom. 10 The chiral amines are also used as st...