Benzimidazole as deazapurine analogue for microbial transglycosylation

LETICIA BENTANCOR; JORGE TRELLES; MATÍAS NÓBILE; ELIZABETH LEWKOWICZ; ADOLFO IRIBARREN

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS B-ENZYMATIC

Elsevier

Año: 2004 vol. 29 p. 3 - 7

1381-1177

Benzimidazole nucleosides are compounds with interesting pharmacological properties. Although chemical synthesis of these analogues has been carried out, only few derivatives have been obtained so far using biotransformations. We report herein the biocatalysed preparation of benzimidazole ribo- and 2-deoxyribonucleosides by different microbial whole cells that afforded yields between 75 and 85%.