Project description
Towards eco-friendly bioelectrocatalysis
There is a need for greener and sustainable chemical synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry and for environmental processes. Enzymatic catalysis is an attractive solution, but enzymes often require cofactors such as NADH and NADPH which are associated with complex downstream processing, are expensive to produce, and cannot be recycled. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the BPYMAC project aims to address these issues by developing synthetic alternatives that are recyclable and stable. Researchers will test these artificial compounds as cost-effective and efficient substitutes of NADH and NADPH in industrial and scientific applications.
Objective
In the quest for a sustainable and eco-friendly future, enzymatic catalysis has emerged as a pivotal platform, steering chemical synthesis towards environmentally benign pathways. The use of natural cofactors such as NADH (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, reduced) and NADPH (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, reduced) has been instrumental in these processes, providing essential reducing equivalents for numerous enzymatic transformations. In the production of valuable chemicals and pharmaceuticals via biocatalysis, NAD(P)H is utilized by various enzymes.NAD(P)H-dependent processes play a key role in pharmaceutical industry and the environment (reducing CO2 emissions), in the production of valuable fuels and chiral active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).While NAD(P)H is effective as a cofactor, it presents several issues that limit its practicality and sustainability – mainly due to high cost of cofactor, high process costs due to lack of recyclability and complex downstream processing.
The central idea of BPYMAC is to leverage the advantages of bipyridines as ideal mediating artificial cofactors (MACs) to replace NAD(P)H due to their synthetic versatility, recyclability, tunability and stability. Synthetic strategies enable their conversion to redox polymer enabling their application as polymer films on electrodes, allowing their use in reactors with facile product separation. This will be the end goal of BPYMAC, meeting significant gaps in the state of the art.
BPYMAC's research outcomes will help revolutionise bioelectrocatalyis by targeting synthesis of valuable products from CO2 reduction and production of chiral APIs in a reactor consisting of polymeric MAC and enzyme, optimised to produce products in high yield and with high stereoselectivity. These reactions will provide proof-of-concept for the potential of BPYMAC's tailored MACs as NAD(P)H replacements for reactions of interest for industry, society and the scientific community.
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis biocatalysis
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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28006 Madrid
Spain
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