Estudo Químico do Basidiomiceto Lentinus strigellus

Abstract

The chemical study of the basidiomicete Lentinus strigellus was done by the investigation of its secondary metabolites production in varied culture media, besides its utilization in the bioreduction of prochiral carbonyl compounds (ketone and - ketoester). From the liquid medium of L. strigellus grown in peptone broth, it was isolated the benzopyranes 2,2-dimethyl-6-methoxycroman-4-one, 4-hydroxy-2,2-dimethyl-6-methoxycromane and (3R,4S)-3,4-dihydroxy-2,2-dimethyl-6-methoxycromane . From the mycelium, the indol alkaloid echinuline and the antraquinone fiscione were isolated, both compounds reported for the first time in Lentinus. The same benzopyranes isolated from L. strigellus grown in peptone, besides (3S,4S)-3,4-dihydroxy-2,2-dimethyl-6-methoxycromane were isolated from the liquid medium of the microorganism grown in Czapek medium enriched with potato broth. When only Czapek was used as culture medium, panepoxidone and isopanepoxidone were isolated. Growing cells of L. strigellus in potato-dextrose medium were investigated, for the first time, in the stereoselective reduction of acetophenone and nine aromatic derivatives, besides the aliphatic ketones cyclohexylmethylketone, octan-2-one and undecan-2-one, and the -ketoester methyl 4-chloroacetoacetate. Most of the aromatic ketones were converted into the respective alcohols with S configuration in high enantiomeric excesses (> 99%). Except for undecan-2-one, the aliphatic ketones were enzimatically reduced to the alcohols with S configurations in high conversion ratios and enantiomeric excesses. -ketoester methyl 4-chloroacetoacetate was chemoselectivelly reduced to its corresponding alcohol with R configuration but with moderate ee.