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Chiral cascades

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Racemic or enantiomerically pure alcohols can be converted with high yield into enantiopure chiral amines in a one-pot redox-neutral cascade process by the clever combination of an alcohol dehydrogenase and an appropriate amine dehydrogenase.

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Figure 1: Scheme showing the one-pot amination of racemic alcohols to form either (R)- or (S)-amines via a dual-enzyme cascade4.

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  1. Manfred T. Reetz and Jian-bo Wang are at the the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45070 Mülheim, Germany,

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  2. M.T.R. is also in the Chemistry Department, Philipps-University, 35032, Marburg, Germany,

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Wang, Jb., Reetz, M. Chiral cascades. Nature Chem 7, 948–949 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2408

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