Cosgrove Lab

A research group at Keele University in the UK investigating biocatalysis and continuous flow

Publications

Independent publications

31. Bifunctional Imine Reductase Cascades for the Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles

Jeremy I. Ramsden, Bruna Zucoloto Da Costa, Rachel S. Heath, James R. Marshall, Sasha R. Derrington, Juan Mangas-Sanchez, Keith R. Mulholland, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Nicholas J. Turner

ACS Catal., 2024, 14, 14703


30. Tandem One-Pot Biocatalytic Oxidation and Wittig Reaction in Water

Alice J. C. Wahart, Liam N. D. Beardmore, Robert A. Field, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Gavin J. Miller

Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 6642


29. Accessing active fragments for drug discovery utilising nitroreductase biocatalysis

Lauren Holder, Eda Yuce, Gabriel Oriomah, Aimee-Page Jenkins, Jóhannes Reynisson, Anja Winter, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*

ChemBioChem, 2024, 25, e202400428


28. Future directions in flow biocatalysis: the impact of new technology on sustainability

Rebecca E. Ruscoe, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*

Curr. Opin. Green. Sustainable Chem., 2024, 49, 100954


27. Harnessing a biocatalyst to bioremediate the purification of alkylglycosides

Alice J. C. Wahart, Jonathan P. Dolan, Simon D. Anderson, Aisling Ní Cheallaigh, Jessica Staniland, Marcelo A. Lima, Mark A. Skidmore, Gavin J. Miller, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*

ChemBioChem, 2024, 25, e202300625


26. Realizing the Continuous Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Anilines Using an Immobilized Nitroreductase

Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Gavin J. Miller, Amin Bornadel, Beatriz Dominguez

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2023, 11, 8556


25. Biocatalytic Approaches to Building Blocks for Enzymatic and Chemical Glycan Synthesis

Jonathan P. Dolan, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Gavin J. Miller

JACS Au, 2023, 3, 47


24. Advances in biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of nucleoside analogues

Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Gavin J. Miller

Expert Opin. Drug DIscovery, 2022, 17, 355


23. Reaching new biocatalytic reactivity using continuous flow reactors

Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Ashley P. Mattey

Chem. Eur. J., 2022, 28, e202103607


22. Oxidase enzymes as sustainable oxidation catalysts

Alice J. C. Wahart, Jessica Staniland, Gavin J. Miller, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*

R. Soc. Open Sci., 2022, 9, 211572


21. Development of continuous flow systems to access secondary amines through previously incompatible biocatalytic cascades

Ashley P. Mattey, Grayson J. Ford, Joan Citoler, Christopher Baldwin, James R. Marshall, Ryan B. Palmer, Matthew Thompson, Nicholas J. Turner, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Sabine L. Flitsch

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 18660 – Hot paper; back cover art


20. Biocatalysis in Flow for Drug Discovery

Itziar Peñafiel, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*

Flow Chemistry in Drug Discovery, ed. J. Alcazar, Springer, pp. 275-316


19. Is it time for biocatalysis in fragment-based drug discovery?

Jeremy I. Ramsden, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Nicholas J. Turner

Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 11104


Postdoc publications

18. RetroBioCat Database: A Platform for Collaborative Curation and Automated Meta-Analysis of Biocatalysis Data

William Finnigan, Max Lubberink, Lorna J. Hepworth, Joan Citoler, Ashley P. Mattey, Grayson J. Ford, Jack Sangster, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Bruna Zucoloto da Costa, Rachel S. Heath, Thomas W. Thorpe, Yuqi Yu, Sabine L. Flitsch, Nicholas J. Turner

ACS Catal., 2023, 13, 11771


17. One-Pot Chemoenzymatic Cascade for the Enantioselective C (1)-Allylation of Tetrahydroisoquinolines

Jack J. Sangster, Rebecca E. Ruscoe, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Juan Mangas-Sánchez, Nicholas J. Turner

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 4431


16. Application of Engineered Biocatalysts for the Synthesis of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)

Juan Mangas‐Sanchez, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Nicholas J. Turner

Protein Engineering: Tools and Applications, ed. H. Zhao, Wiley, 2021, pp. 265-294


15. Biocatalytic Synthesis of Chiral Amines Using Oxidoreductases

Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Jeremy I. Ramsden, Juan Mangas‐Sanchez, Nicholas J. Turner

Methodologies in Amine Synthesis, ed. A. Ricci and L. Bernardi, Wiley, 2021, pp. 243–283


14. Enzyme immobilisation on wood-derived cellulose scaffolds via carbohydrate-binding module fusion constructs

Aled D. Roberts, Karl A. P. Payne, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Viranga Tilakaratna, Itziar Penafiel, William Finnigan, Nicholas J. Turner, Nigel S. Scrutton

Green Chem., 2021, 23, 4716


13. One‐Pot Synthesis of Chiral N‐Arylamines by Combining Biocatalytic Aminations with Buchwald–Hartwig N‐Arylation

Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Matthew P. Thompson, Syed T. Ahmed, Fabio Parmeggiani, Nicholas J. Turner

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 18156


12. Rapid model-based optimization of a two-enzyme system for continuous reductive amination in flow

William Finnigan, Joan Citoler, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Nicholas J. Turner

Org. Process Res. Dev., 2020, 24, 1969


11. Asymmetric synthesis of primary amines catalyzed by thermotolerant fungal reductive aminases

Juan Mangas-Sanchez, Mahima Sharma, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Jeremy I. Ramsden, James R. Marshall, Thomas W. Thorpe, Ryan B. Palmer, Gideon Grogan, Nicholas J. Turner

Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 5052


10. Natural heterogeneous catalysis with immobilised oxidase biocatalysts

Ashley P. Mattey, Jack J. Sangster, Jeremy I. Ramsden, Christopher Baldwin, William R. Birmingham, Rachel S. Heath, Antonio Angelastro, Nicholas J. Turner, Sebastian C. Cosgrove*, Sabine L. Flitsch

RSC Advs., 2020, 10, 19501


9. Enantioselective synthesis of chiral vicinal amino alcohols using amine dehydrogenases

Fei-Fei Chen, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, William R. Birmingham, Juan Mangas-Sanchez, Joan Citoler, Matthew P. Thompson, Gao-Wei Zheng, Jian-He Xu, Nicholas J. Turner

ACS Catal., 2019, 9, 11813


8. Biocatalytic oxidation in continuous flow for the generation of carbohydrate dialdehydes

Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Ashley P. Mattey, Michel Riese, Michael R. Chapman, William R. Birmingham, A. John Blacker, Nikil Kapur, Nicholas J. Turner, Sabine L. Flitsch

ACS Catal., 2019, 9, 11658


7. Biocatalysis using immobilized enzymes in continuous flow for the synthesis of fine chemicals

Matthew P. Thompson, Itziar Peñafiel, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Nicholas J. Turner

Org. Process Res. Dev., 2019, 23, 9


6. Highly productive oxidative biocatalysis in continuous flow by enhancing the aqueous equilibrium solubility of oxygen

Michael R. Chapman, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Nicholas J. Turner, Nikil Kapur, A. John Blacker

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 10535


5. Imine reductases, reductive aminases, and amine oxidases for the synthesis of chiral amines: discovery, characterization, and synthetic applications

Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Agata Brzezniak, Scott P. France, Jeremy I. Ramsden, Juan Mangas-Sanchez, Sarah L. Montgomery, Rachel S. Heath, Nicholas J. Turner

Methods in Enzymology, 2018, 608, 131-149


PhD publications

4. Synergistic chemo/biocatalytic synthesis of alkaloidal tetrahydroquinolines

Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Shahed Hussain, Nicholas J. Turner, Stephen P. Marsden

ACS Catal., 2018, 8, 5570


3. Continuous Flow for the Photochemical C‐H Amination of Arenes

Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Gayle E. Douglas, Steven A. Raw, Stephen P. Marsden

ChemPhotoChem, 2018, 2, 851


2. Radical-mediated direct C–H amination of arenes with secondary amines

Sebastian C. Cosgrove, John M. C. Plane, Stephen P. Marsden

Chem. Sci, 2018, 9, 6647


1. Synthesis and organogelating behaviour of amino acid-functionalised triphenylenes

Jonathan E. Meegan, Xiaofei Yang, Ratana Rungsirisakun, Sebastian C. Cosgrove, Richard J. Bushby, Amin Sadeghpour, Michael Rappolt, Rik Brydson, Richard J. Ansell

Soft Matter, 2017, 13, 5922