Enantioselective reduction of racemic ketones by yeast
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 9,p. 315-316
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39770000315
Abstract
Selective reductions of one enantiomer of simple racemic ketones have been observed with actively fermenting yeast; the method, which readily yields an optically active secondary alcohol and the recovered ketone in optically pure form, has led to the preparation of optically active sulphoxides and α-chloroketones.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: