Optically active (S)-ketone- and (R)-aldehyde-cyanohydrins via an (R)-oxynitrifase-catalysed transcyanation. Chemoenzymatic syntheses of 2-cyanotetrahydrofuran and 2-cyanotetrahydropyran
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 10,p. 989-990
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39950000989
Abstract
(R)-Oxynitrilase catalyses the enantioselective decyanation of racemic ketone cyanohydrins and the enantioselective addition of HCN to ω-bromoaldehydes in one step.Keywords
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