Tetrahedron letters

Enzyme-mediated asymmetric hydrolysis of α-benzyloxycarboxylic esters

Y Kato, H Ohta, G Tsuchihashi

Index: Kato, Yasuo; Ohta, Hiromichi; Tsuchihashi, Gen-ichi Tetrahedron Letters, 1987 , vol. 28, # 12 p. 1303 - 1306

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Abstract

Abstract Incubation of d1-α-benzyloxycarboxylic esters with grown cells of a bacterium, Corynebacterium equi IFO 3730, afforded the chiral esters of high optical purities via asymmetric hydrolysis. This reaction has been revealed to have a wide applicability to alkane-and arylalkane-carboxylic esters.