Baker's yeast-mediated enantioselective reduction of substituted fluorenones.
In the presence of DMSO as co-solvent and under vigorous agitation, baker's yeast in water was found to reduce substituted fluorenones to the corresponding fluorenols in good to excellent enantioselectivities.
Li
Feng
F
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China.
Cui
Jingnan
J
Qian
Xuhong
X
Ren
Weimin
W
Wang
Xingyong
X
D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D005449:Fluorenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
D005449:Fluorenes