Stereoselective synthesis of heteroaryl alcohols and alanines

This PhD thesis presents the stereoselecticve synthesis of several novel amino acids and secondary alcohols using biocatalysis. The work is divided in two main parts.The first part is dedicated to the stereoselective synthesis of novel heteroaryl alanines using two different biocatalysts with the same enantiopreference, the aminoacylase I and the baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Using these two biocatalysts the L-alanines were obtained with a high enantiometric excess and yields.The second part is dedicated to the syntehsis of the txo enantiomers of the novel (hetero)aryl secondary alcohols using lipases as the biocatalysts. This part is divided in two sub-chapters, one for the stereoselective synthesis of (S)- and (R)-1-aryl-3-chloro propanols and the other for the streoselective synthesis of different (thiazole-2-yl)-methanols C-substituted and their acylated derivatives. These compounds were obtained by the stereoselective enzymatic acylation of the racemic alcohols and the enzymatic hydrolisis ot their acylatic derivatives.