To the best of our knowledge, there are only two reports on the asymmetric synthesis of (S)-betaxolol 1, one is a lipase catalysed chemoenzymatic route 7 and the other involves asymmetric synthesis starting from oxazolidinone derivative. 8a In the chemoenzymatic method, the enantiomeric excess of (S)-betaxolol was 82%, which was further improved to 91% ee after crystallising its hydrochloride salt. On the other hand, asymmetric synthesis using an oxazolidinone derivative has ...