Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of 1,2- and 1,3- amino-alcohols and their use in the enantioselective reduction of acetophenone and anti-acetophenone oxime methyl ether with borane

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)80959-5

New chiral amino-alcohols were enantioselectively synthesized using biotransformations as the key steps. They were used as ligand in the enantioselective borane reduction of acetophenone and of the corresponding anti oxime methyl ether.