Synthesis of cyclic polyamines by enzymatic generation of an amino aldehyde in situ

• Multifunctional polycationic polyamines, for example, used in drug and gene delivery, have product range limitations in their synthesis methods. Here, we synthesize a polyamine by forming a self-assembling amino aldehyde from the corresponding amino alcohol with horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase (HLADH), followed by reduction. Circular polyamines were synthesized from 3-amino-propan-1-ol as starting material, analogous to cyclic polyamines formed from azetidin. The product had an isolated yield of 89.7% or 15.3 g L -1. The predicted range of possible polyamine products by this method is broad since many amino alcohols are putative substrates for HLADH. The enzyme also had activity for 2-amino-propan-1-ol and 2-amino-2-phenyl-ethanol, for which the enantioselectivity was 330 (S) and 32 (R), respectively.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)

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enzyme catalysis

hydrophilic polymers

polyamines

polyelectrolytes

self-assembly

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