137449-07-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Synthesis of 1,3-dioxin-4-ones having chiral hydroxyalkyl groups at the 6-position by means of baker's yeast reduction and their uses for epc synthesis
Sakaki, Jun-Ichi,Sugita, Yoshiaki,Sato, Masayuki,Kaneko, Chikara
, p. 6197 - 6214 (1991)
Prochiral methyl ketones connected with 6-(4-oxo-1,3-dioxinyl) group directly or through methylene chain (1-3) gave, by treatment with fermenting baker's yeast, the corresponding (S)-alcohols which served as synthons for a variety of enantiomerically pure
