Chemoenzymatic synthesis of aroma active 5, 6-dihydro-and tetrahydropyrazines from aliphatic acyloins produced by baker's yeast

T Kurniadi, RB Rhlid, LB Fay, MA Juillerat…

Index: Bel-Rhlid, Rachid; Renard, Michel F.; Veschambre, Henri Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de France, 1996 , vol. 133, # 10 p. 1011 - 1021

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Abstract

Twenty-five acyloins were generated by biotransformation of aliphatic aldehydes and 2- ketocarboxylic acids using whole cells of baker's yeast as catalyst. Six of these acyloins were synthesized and tentatively characterized for the first time. Subsequent chemical