Microbial synthesis of optically pure (R)-2,4,4-trimethyl-3-(2'-hydroxyethyl)-cyclohex-2-en-1-ol, a new and versatile chiral building block for terpene synthesis

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0957-4166(95)00058-W

The hydroxylation of 2,4,4-trimethyl-3-(2'-hydroxyethyl)-2-cyclohexene by Mucor plumbeus, after usual work up and a subsequent single crystallization, gave the corresponding optically pure (1R)-hydroxy synthon.