State of the art and applications in stereoselective synthesis of chiral cyanohydrins

Biocatalysis in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 677-698

  Effenberger, Franz ^a   Förster, Siegfried ^a   Kobler, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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