187671-48-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Enantiopure building blocks for the synthesis of 3-methyl-2-alkanols. Diastereoselective methylmetal addition to a chiral 2-methylaldehyde followed by lipase catalysed esterification
Larsson, Michael,Andersson, Jimmy,Liu, Rong,Hoegberg, Hans-Erik
, p. 2907 - 2915 (2007/10/03)
The racemic synthetic building block (2R*,3R*)-3-methyl-4- (phenylsulfanyl)butan-2-ol (2R*,3R*)-2 was obtained in a high diastereomeric ratio [95:5, (2R*,3R*)/(2R*,3S*)-ratio] by Lewis acid catalysed dimethylzinc addition to racemic 2-methyl-3- (phenylsul
Preparation of Sulfur-Containing Optically Active Secondary Alcohols Based on Pichia farinosa-Catalyzed anti-Prelog-Rule Reduction as the Key Step
Ohtsuka, Yoshikazu,Katoh, Osamu,Sugai, Takeshi,Ohta, Hiromichi
, p. 483 - 491 (2007/10/03)
A Pichia farinosa IAM 4682 mediated reduction of sulfur containing ketones afforded secondary alcohols with (R)-absolute configuration. For example, 4-(phenylthio)-2-butanone and 4-(phenylsulfonyl)-2-butanone afforded (R)-4-(phenylthio)-2-butanol (91%ee) in 90% yield and (R)-4-(phenylsulfonyl)-2-butanol (97%ee) in 94% yield, respectively. In the case that the ee of the product was not satisfactory, any contaminating (S)-enantiomer was selectively oxidized by Rhodococcus rhodochrous IFO 15564 to leave pure (R)-enantiomer. The substrate specificity of Pichia farinosa-mediated reduction and Rhodococcus rhodochrous-mediated oxidation was further examined.
