Fungal Platform for Direct Chiral Phosphonic Building Blocks Production. Closer Look on Conversion Pathway

# The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract The application of Rhodospirillum toruloides strain allowed resolving the chemi-cally synthesized racemic mixtures of following chiral aminophosphonic acids: 1-aminoethylphosphonic acid (1), 1-amino-1-iso-propyl-1-phosphonic acid (2), 1-amino-1-phenylmethylphosphonic acid (4) and 1-amino-2-phenylethylphosphonic acid (3). The applied protocols resulted in obtaining pure (R)-1-aminoethylphosphonic acid (100 % of e.e.) and enantiomerically enriched mixtures of other phosphonates (73 % e.e. of (S)-1-amino-1-phenylmethylphosphonic acid, 51 % e.e. of (R)-1-amino-2-phenylethylphosphonic acid and 40 % e.e. of (S)-1-amino-2-methylpropylphosphonic acid). Products are valuable chiral building blocks and serve as aminophosphonic acids platform for further applications. Performed experiments allowed to define the path of xenobiotics bioconversion