title: Hydrolytic resolution of (R,S)-2-hydroxycarboxylic acid esters in biphasic media: implication for rate-limiting formation or breakdown of tetrahedral intermediates in acylation step.
abstract: A thermally stable esterase (SNSM-87) from Klebsiella oxytoca is explored as an enantioselective biocatalyst for the hydrolytic resolution of (R,S)-2-hydroxycarboxylic acid esters in biphasic media, where the best methyl esters possessing the highest enantioselectivity and reactivity are selected and elucidated in terms of the structure-enantioselectivity correlations and substrate partitioning in the aqueous phase. With (R,S)-2-chloromandelates as the model substrates, an expanded Michaelis-Menten mechanism for the rate-limiting acylation step is adopted for the kinetic analysis. The Brønsted slope of 25.7 for the fast-reacting (S)-2-chloromandelates containing a difficult leaving alcohol moiety, as well as that of 4.13 for the slow-reacting (R)-2-chloromandelates in the whole range of leaving alcohol moieties, indicates that the breakdown of tetrahedral intermediates to acyl-enzyme intermediates is rate-limiting. However, the rate-limiting step shifts to the formation of tetrahedral intermediates for the (S)-2-chloromandelates containing an easy leaving alcohol moiety, and leads to an optimal enantioselectivity for the methyl ester substrate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Pei-Yun
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Teh-Liang
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shau-Wei
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kroutil
mesh_terms: D000215:Acylation; D002264:Carboxylic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D004795:Enzyme Stability; D004950:Esterases / Q000737:chemistry*; D004952:Esters; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D041121:Klebsiella oxytoca / Q000201:enzymology*; D044367:Phase Transition; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D002264:Carboxylic Acids; D004952:Esters; D004950:Esterases