Improving the asymmetric reduction of acetyltrimethylsilane catalyzed with immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells by using an ionic liquid in a biphasic system

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Min Huang, ahmin_scut@163.com1, Wen-Yong Lou, scutlou@hotmail.com1, Hong Wu, bbhwu@scut.edu.cn2, and Min-Hua Zong, btmhzong@scut.edu.cn1. (1) Department of Biotechnology, South China University of Technology, 1 Wushan Street, Guangzhou, 510640, China, (2) College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, South China University of Technology, 1 Wushan Street, Guangzhou, 510640, China
Efficient asymmetric reduction of acetyltrimethylsilane, catalyzed with immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, was successfully conducted in a biphasic system containing the ionic liquid BMIM·PF6. An obvious enhancement in the initial rate and enantioselectivity of the reduction was observed by using an aqueous-BMIM·PF6 biphasic system instead of an aqueous-n-hexane biphasic system. Under the optimized conditions (with the volume ratio of buffer to BMIM·PF6 or n-hexane, buffer pH, reaction temperature and substrate concentration being 6/1, 7.3, 30ºC and 84mM for BMIM·PF6 containing system, and 1/2, 8.0, 30 ºC and 42mM for n-hexane containing system, respectively), the initial rate, the maximum yield and the product e.e. , respectively, were 63.4mM/h, 99.9% and above 99.9% for the reduction taking place in aqueous-BMIM·PF6 biphasic system, while in aqueous-n-hexane biphasic system, the corresponding values were found to be 1.45mM/h, 97.4% and 95.4%. Additionally, immobilized cells showed higher operational stability in BMIM·PF6 containing system.