Syntheses of Optically Active Amino Acids by the Combination of Chemical Methods and Microbial Techniques

1 December 1983

journal article
Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Vol. 413 (1) , 551-553
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1983.tb47937.x

Abstract

The newly developed processes combining the advantages of chemical methods and microbial techniques brought about optically active amino acids (D- or L-) from racemic compounds. In all cases, the other isomer of substrates (L- or D-) that cannot be catalyzed by hydrolyzing enzymes were easily racemized under reaction conditions. Then, optically active amino acids were produced quantitatively from the racemic compounds.

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