Relative reactivity of substituted acetophenones in enantioselective biocatalytic reduction catalyzed by plant cells of Daucus carota and Petroselinum crispum

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2019.130494

We have examined enantioselective bioreduction of acetophenone and its substituted derivatives into corresponding S-alcohols catalyzed by Daucus carota and Petroselinum crispum plant cells in water and isooctane. We found that the nature of the substituen