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BIOKATALIZA

Our research interest focuses around the application of halohydrin dehalogenases (HHDH) for organic synthesis. In particular, we are interested in biocatalytic epoxide ring-opening reactions using HHDH, Scheme. From the viewpoint of organic chemists, HHDHs are valuable catalysts that can be used for the enantioselective and regioselective syntheses of a wide range of 1,2-difunctionalised chiral compounds.

Current projects on HHDHs involve:

  • Synthesis of optically pure fluorine containing building blocks
  • Chemoenzymatic synthesis
  • Biotransformation with engineered HHDH
  • Application of HHDH in organic media

 Methods we are using:

  • Expression of enzymes
  • Organic synthesis
  • Chiral analysis (GC/HPLC)
  • Process development
  • Molecular modelling

Selected publications:

Irena Dokli, Nevena Milčić, Petra Marin, Marina Svetec Miklenić, Martina Sudar, LixiaTang, Zvjezdana Findrik Blažević, Maja Majerić Elenkov, Halohydrin dehalogenase-catalysed synthesis of fluorinated aromatic chiral building blocks, Catal. Commun2021152, 106285.

Zvjezdana Findrik Blažević, Nevena Milčić, Martina Sudar, Maja Majerić Elenkov, Halohydrin Dehalogenases and Their Potential in Industrial Application – A Viewpoint of Enzyme Reaction Engineering, Adv. Synth. Catal. 363 2021363, 388-410.

Majerić Elenkov, M.; Čičak, M.; Knežević, A.; Smolko, A. , Halohydrin dehalogenase-catalysed transformations of epifluorohydrin, Tetrahedron Lett., 201859, 406-408.

Mikleušević, A.; Primožić, I.; Hrenar, T.;  Salopek-Sondi, B.; Tang, L.; Majerić Elenkov, M., Azidolysis of epoxides catalysed by the halohydrin dehalogenase from Arthrobacter sp. AD2 and a mutant with enhanced enantioselectivity: an (S)-selective HHDH, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 201627, 930-935.

Mikleušević, A.; Hameršak, Z.; Salopek-Sondi, B.; Tang, L.; Janssen, D. B.; Majerić Elenkov, M., Oxazolidinone Synthesis through Halohydrin Dehalogenase-Catalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Resolution, Adv. Synth. Catal2015357, 1709-1714.

Majerić Elenkov, M.; Primožič, I.; Hrenar, T.; Smolko, A.; Dokli, I.; Salopek-Sondi, B.; Tang, L., Catalytic activity of halohydrin dehalogenases towards spiroepoxides, Org. Biomol. Chem201210, 5063-5072.

Book chapter:

Majerić Elenkov, M.; Szymanski, W.; Janssen D. B.; Reactions Catalyzed by Halohydrin Dehalogenases, Science of Synthesis; Biocatalysis in Organic Synthesis 2, Faber, K.; Fessner, W.-D. ; Turner, N. (Eds.), Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2014, 507-527.