Microbial reduction of 1-tetralone 2-carboxyesters as a source of new asymmetric synthons

Autor: Umberto Guzzi, Jean-Alex Laffitte, Didier Buisson, Roberto Cecchi, Robert Azerad
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Tetrahedron Letters. 35:3091-3094
ISSN: 0040-4039
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)76837-7
Popis: The reduction of unsubstituted or methoxy-substituted (±)-2-carboxyethyl-1-tetralones by selected microorganisms affords optically active 1-hydroxy-2-carboxyethyl tetralins which can be used as versatile asymmetric synthons, for example in the preparation of biologically active methoxy-substituted 2R-aminotetralins. 1R,2R-(cis)-hydroxyesters of high optical purity are obtained with yeast strains, while the use of filamentous fungi leads to the enantiomeric 1S,2S-(cis)-hydroxyesters.
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