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.
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China.
Feng
F
Li
Jingnan
J
Cui
Xuhong
X
Qian
Weimin
W
Ren
Xingyong
X
Wang
D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D005449:Fluorenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
D005449:Fluorenes