Contrasting steric effects of the ketones and aldehydes in the reactions of the diisopinocampheyl enolborinates of methyl ketones with aldehydes
作者:P.Veeraraghavan Ramachandran、Wei-chu Xu、Herbert C. Brown
DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(96)00969-0
日期:1996.7
representative series of aldehydes, both of differing steric requirements provides aldols whose enantiomeric purities depend on the steric requirements of both the ketones and the aldehydes. This study has shown that increasing the steric requirements of the R group in the ketones has a pernicious effect on the ee, while increasing the steric requirements of the R group in the aldehydes exerts a beneficial
Vegetables as biocatalysts in stereoselective hydrolysis of labile organic compounds
作者:Björn Bohman、L. R. Cavonius、C. Rikard Unelius
DOI:10.1039/b913936b
日期:——
Hydrolysis of labile esters of β-hydroxyketones has been performed with whole plant tissue from various vegetables. The pheromone 5-hydroxy-4-methyl-3-heptanone (1) was used as the model compound. Hydrolysis of acetates and benzoates of 1 was unsuccessful using normal conditions of ester hydrolysis, both by chemical hydrolysis and by the means of commercial lipases. When, however, whole cells of carrot, celery root, eggplant, parsley root, parsnip and potato were used as reagents, hydrolysis of the acetates was successful. At low conversion the hydrolysis was stereoselective and at total conversion virtually no formation of by-products was observed. The selectivity varied among the eight vegetables that were evaluated. Methods of preparation and substrate-to-plant ratio were examined. Furthermore, acetates and benzoates of three analogous compounds [5-hydroxy-3-heptanone (2), 5-hydroxy-5-methyl-3-heptanone (3) and 5-ethyl-6-hydroxy-4-octanone (4)] were hydrolyzed by potato and sweet potato to various degrees, indicating that the method is general for the mild and stereoselective hydrolysis of secondary β-alkoxy- and β-aryloxyketones.
Use of biological systems for the synthesis of chiral molecules. 5. Microbiological reduction of acyclic .beta.-diketones
作者:Annie Fauve、Henri Veschambre
DOI:10.1021/jo00257a004
日期:1988.10
Utilisation des methodes biologiques pour la preparation de synthons chiraux : I-reduction de β-dicetones acycliques par saccharomyces cerevisiae (levure de boulanger)