ENANTIOSELECTIVE SULFOXIDATION MEDIATED BY VANADIUM-INCORPORATED PHYTASE - A HYDROLASE ACTING AS A PEROXIDASE

Authors
VANDEVELDE F KONEMANN L VANRANTWIJK F SHELDON RA
Citation
F. Vandevelde et al., ENANTIOSELECTIVE SULFOXIDATION MEDIATED BY VANADIUM-INCORPORATED PHYTASE - A HYDROLASE ACTING AS A PEROXIDASE, Chemical communications, (17), 1998, pp. 1891-1892
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry
Journal title
Chemical communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
13597345
Issue
17
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1891 - 1892
Database
ISI
SICI code
1359-7345(1998):17<1891:ESMBVP>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Phytase (E.C. 3.1.3.8), which in vivo mediates the hydrolysis of phosp hate esters, catalyses the enantioselective oxidation of thioanisole w ith H2O2, both in the presence and absence of vanadate ion, affording the S-sulfoxide in up to 66% ee at 100% conversion.