Baker's yeast-mediated enantioselective reduction of substituted fluorenones

  • Feng Li
  • , Jingnan Cui*
  • , Xuhong Qian
  • , Weimin Ren
  • , Xingyong Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In the presence of DMSO as co-solvent and under vigorous agitation, baker's yeast in water was found to reduce substituted fluorenones to the corresponding fluorenols in good to excellent enantioselectivities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)865-867
Number of pages3
JournalChemical Communications
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes

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