Highly efficient and enantioselective biotransformations of racemic azetidine-2-carbonitriles and their synthetic applications

DH Leng, DX Wang, J Pan, ZT Huang…

Index: Futamura, Yasuhiko; Kurokawa, Masayuki; Obata, Rika; Nishiyama, Shigeru; Sugai, Takeshi Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 2005 , vol. 69, # 10 p. 1892 - 1897

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... Volume: Page: ... hydration of acrylonitrile.(8) Recent studies have demonstrated that biotransformations of nitriles complement the existing asymmetric chemical and enzymatic methods for the synthesis of chiral carboxylic acids and their derivatives.(9, 10) One of ...