Chemistry Letters

Enzyme-mediated enantioface-differentiating hydrolysis of enol esters.

K Matsumoto, H Ohta

Index: Matsumoto, Kazutsugu; Ohta, Hiromichi Chemistry Letters, 1989 , p. 1589 - 1592

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Citation Number: 13

Abstract

A new type of enzymatic hydrolysis has been disclosed. A kind of yeast, Pichia miso, hydrolyzed enol esters such as 3-acetoxy-1-p-methoxybenzyloxy-2-methoxymethoxy-2- alkenes with differentiation of the enantiotopic face to afford optically active α-substituted ketones.