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Volume 7, Issue 1 (Suppl) J Biotechnol Biomater
ISSN: 2155-952X JBTBM, an open access journal
March 20-21, 2017 Rome, Italy
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15th World Congress on
2nd International Conference on
Biotechnology And Biotech Industries Meet
Enzymology and Molecular Biology
Enzymology & Mol. Biology 2017
Biotechnology Congress 2017
March 20-21, 2017
Biological oxidation in organic synthesis
Francesca Mangiavacchi, Orsola Merlino, Bonifacio Monti, Luca Sancineto and Claudio Santi
University of Perugia, Italy
Oxidation reactions are a central and general field of organic and industrial chemistry, being defined as: “a process which involves
a gain in oxygen and/or loss of hydrogen”. In recent years, a wide range of oxidative procedure has been developed in the attempt
of synthetic chemist to satisfy the need of reaction efficiency and with regard of environmental impact. Although a great effort has
been made, the development of new synthetic green processes is desirable. In pursuing our interest in green chemistry combined
with our expertise in the selenium chemistry we have developed new eco-friendly oxidative process taking inspiration by biological
mechanism of glutathione peroxidase (GPx). The catalytic cycle of GPx is an oxidation reaction in which the selenium atom of a
selenocysteine is the catalyst; the hydrogen peroxide is the stoichiometric oxidant, and glutathione the substrate that is subjected
to oxidation. In the native enzyme the catalytic triad prevents over oxidation of selenium that is able to oxidize only the thiols. In
the absence of thiols and in the absence of stabilizing interaction small selenium containing compound are oxidized to selenonic
or perseleninic acid and in this form they can transfer oxygen to carbon-carbon double bond and carbon oxygen double bond
of aldehydes. Interestingly, these reactions can be carried out in “on-water” conditions having as unique side product a molecule
of water. Herein we present some example of “bio-logical” oxidation applied to unsaturated organic substrates for the synthesis
of diol, oxidation of aldehydes into carboxylic acids and oxidative cyclofunctionalization. We used catalytic amount of selenium
based catalyst, as selenocysteine and diphenyl diselenide, and hydrogen peroxide as stoichiometric co-oxidant as greener oxidant.
Furthermore, we use mild condition, and we could recycle the catalyst at least five times without an evident loss in terms of yields.
Biography
Francesca Mangiavacchi has received her Master’s degree in 2016 under the supervision of Professor Antimo Gioiello and Claudio Santi in the Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences of University of Perugia. Currently, she is a Research Fellow in the group of Catalysis and Organic Green Chemistry of Professor Claudio
Santi working on the development of new catalytic methods for oxidation of natural derivatives under mild conditions. In 2015, she received the award for the Best
Oral Communication at the 4th Workshop on Selenium Sulphur and Redox Catalysis and in 2016 a Travel Fellowship from the University of Melbourne to attend at
the International Conference on Selenium and Tellurium in Gifu (Japan) under the project Selenium (Redox) Therapeutics.
Francesca Mangiavacchi et al., J Biotechnol Biomater 2017, 7:1(Suppl)