Organic Letters 2002-05-30

Practical syntheses of N-substituted 3-hydroxyazetidines and 4-hydroxypiperidines by hydroxylation with Sphingomonas sp. HXN-200.

Dongliang Chang, Hans-Jürgen Feiten, Karl-H Engesser, Jan B van Beilen, Bernard Witholt, Zhi Li

Index: Org. Lett. 4 , 1859-1862, (2002)

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Abstract

[reaction: see text] Hydroxylation of N-substituted azetidines 11 and 12 and piperidines 15-19 with Sphingomonas sp. HXN-200 gave 91-98% of the corresponding 3-hydroxyazetidines 13 and 14 and 4-hydroxypiperidines 20-24, respectively, with high activity and excellent regioselectivity. High yields and high product concentrations (2 g/L) were achieved with frozen/thawed cells as biocatalyst. For the first time, rehydrated lyophilized cells were successfully used for the biohydroxylation.