Biotransformations of benzoylacetonitrile with the fungus Curvularia lunata: Highly diastereo- and enantioselective synthesis of α-alkyl β-hydroxy nitriles and γ-amino alcohols

Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1

Volumn , Issue 3, 2000, Pages 307-309

  Gotor, Vicente ^a   Dehli, Juan R ^a   Rebolledo, Francisca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DERIVATIVES; FUNGI; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

BIOTRANSFORMATIONS; FUNGUS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 0034615209     PISSN: 14704358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a909721j     Document Type: Article

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