Chemo-enzymatic cascades to produce cycloalkenes from bio-based resources

Cycloalkenes are bulk petrochemicals that are currently obtained from fossil fuels. Here, the authors developed multi enzyme pathways in combination with a Ru-catalyzed metathesis reaction for the one-pot production of cyclopentene, cyclohexene, and cycloheptene from olive oil-derived intermediates.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shuke Wu, Yi Zhou, Daniel Gerngross, Markus Jeschek, Thomas R. Ward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13071-y