In this study, a series of complex phenylpropanoid derivatives were obtained by
chemoenzymatic biotransformation of ferulic acid, caffeic acid, and a mixture of both
acids using the enzymatic secretome of Botrytis cinerea. These substrates were
incubated with fungal enzymes, and the reactions were monitored using state-ofthe-
art analytical methods. Under such conditions, a series of dimers, trimers, and
tetramers were generated. The reactions were optimized and scaled up. The resulting
mixtures were purified by high-resolution semi-preparative HPLC combined with dry
load introduction. This approach generated a series of 23 phenylpropanoid derivatives,
11 of which are described here for the first time. These compounds are divided into
12 dimers, 9 trimers (including a completely new structural scaffold), and 2 tetramers.
Elucidation of their structures was performed with classical spectroscopic methods such
as NMR and HRESIMS analyses. The resulting compound series were analyzed for
anti-Wnt activity in TNBC cells, with several derivatives demonstrating specific inhibition.