Antibody catalysis of difficult chemical transformations
Antibody catalysis of difficult chemical transformations
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DOI:
10.1021/ar00032a001
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发表时间:
1993-08
影响因子:
18.3
通讯作者:
P. Schultz;R. Lerner
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作者:
P. Schultz;R. Lerner
Since theoriginal reports of antibody catalysts in1986, 1, 2 many chemical transformations have been catalyzed by antibodies. 3 The specificity and, in some cases, the rates of antibody-catalyzed reactions rival those of enzymatic reactions. In each study, the binding energy of the antibody molecule was used in a highly specific way to control the outcome of a chemical reaction. In the earliest examples, simple transformations with well-studied mechanisms were chosen. For example, antibodies were used to stabilize the tetrahedral, negatively-charged transition state in ester hydrolysis. 1· 2 Thesereactions were followed by more sophisticated experiments involving general acid, gen-eral base catalysis, nucleophilic catalysis, and catalysis by approximation. 3 More recently, the field has begun to focus on selective chemical transformations that are difficult to achieve via existing chemical methods. These include “disfavored” chemical reactions, reactions along one of many nearly equivalent reaction coordinates, and reactions in whichthe inherent reactivity or molarity of the reactants is reversed. Recent advances related to this aspect of antibody catalysis are reviewed below.