Dynamic kinetic resolution in the microbial reduction of α-monosubstituted β-oxoesters: the reduction of 2-carbethoxycycloheptanone and 2-carbethoxy-cyclooctanone
摘要:
The microbial reduction of the title compounds by various yeasts or filamentous fungi strains affords the corresponding (1S,2R)- and/or (1S,2S)-hydroxyesters in good yield and ee. The determination of their absolute configuration was achieved by transformation into known 2-methylcycloalkanone stereoisomers. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.