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SUBMITTER: Ji P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8675236 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ji Pengfei P Park Jeeyoung J Gu Yang Y Clark Douglas S DS Hartwig John F JF
Nature chemistry 20210218 4
Enzymatic reactions through mononuclear metal hydrides are unknown in nature, despite the prevalence of such intermediates in the reactions of synthetic transition-metal catalysts. If metalloenzymes could react through abiotic intermediates like these, then the scope of enzyme-catalysed reactions would expand. Here we show that zinc-containing carbonic anhydrase enzymes catalyse hydride transfers from silanes to ketones with high enantioselectivity. We report mechanistic data providing strong ev ...[more]