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Enzyme-catalysed Baeyer-Villiger Oxidations of Some Substituted Bicycloheptanones
Carnell, Andrew J.,Roberts, Stanley M.,Sik, Vladimir,Willetts, Andrew J.
, p. 1438 - 1439 (1990)
The ketones 1 and 4 are oxidized to γ-lactones 2 and 5 with low enantioselectivity by both Acinetobacter sp.NCIB 9871 and Pseudomonas sp.NCIB 9872; in contrast the ketones 7 and 10 are biotransformed to products 8/9 and 11 respectively of very high optical purity.
