Biocatalytic transformation of racemates into chiral building blocks in 100% chemical yield and 100% enantiomeric excess

Tetrahedron Asymmetry

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-117

  Strauss, U T ^a   Felfer, U ^a   Faber, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; AMINE; EPOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; CYCLIZATION; ENANTIOMER; KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE;

EID: 0033556602     PISSN: 09574166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4166(98)00490-X     Document Type: Article

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