Treatment of α-(dimethylthiocarbamoylthio) ketones with bakers’ yeast afforded the corresponding chiral alcohols in high yields with high enantiomeric excess (in most cases, more than 96% ee). α-(Dimethylthiocarbamoylthio) aldehydes were reduced to give chiral α-(dimethylthiocarbamoylthio) alcohols in 69–92% yields with 32–63% ee, which were converted to chiral 1,2-epithio derivatives.