A. Kamal et al., NOVEL BIOCATALYTIC REDUCTION OF ARYL AZIDES - CHEMOENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF PYRROLO[2,1-C][1,4]BENZODIAZEPINE ANTIBIOTICS, Chemical communications, (11), 1997, pp. 1015-1016
The chemoselective reduction of aryl azides to aryl amines, and the sy
nthesis of the imine-containing pyrrolo[2,1-c]-[1,4]benzodiazepine DNA
-binding antitumour antibiotics by selective biocatalytic reductive cy
clization of azido aldehydes, has been achieved by employing baker's y
east.