Issue 23, 2021

Chemo-bio catalysis using carbon supports: application in H2-driven cofactor recycling

Abstract

Heterogeneous biocatalytic hydrogenation is an attractive strategy for clean, enantioselective C[double bond, length as m-dash]X reduction. This approach relies on enzymes powered by H2-driven NADH recycling. Commercially available carbon-supported metal (metal/C) catalysts are investigated here for direct H2-driven NAD+ reduction. Selected metal/C catalysts are then used for H2 oxidation with electrons transferred via the conductive carbon support material to an adsorbed enzyme for NAD+ reduction. These chemo-bio catalysts show improved activity and selectivity for generating bioactive NADH under ambient reaction conditions compared to metal/C catalysts. The metal/C catalysts and carbon support materials (all activated carbon or carbon black) are characterised to probe which properties potentially influence catalyst activity. The optimised chemo-bio catalysts are then used to supply NADH to an alcohol dehydrogenase for enantioselective (>99% ee) ketone reductions, leading to high cofactor turnover numbers and Pd and NAD+ reductase activities of 441 h−1 and 2347 h−1, respectively. This method demonstrates a new way of combining chemo- and biocatalysis on carbon supports, highlighted here for selective hydrogenation reactions.

Graphical abstract: Chemo-bio catalysis using carbon supports: application in H2-driven cofactor recycling

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
15 1月 2021
Accepted
30 4月 2021
First published
07 5月 2021
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Sci., 2021,12, 8105-8114

Chemo-bio catalysis using carbon supports: application in H2-driven cofactor recycling

X. Zhao, S. E. Cleary, C. Zor, N. Grobert, H. A. Reeve and K. A. Vincent, Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 8105 DOI: 10.1039/D1SC00295C

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