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Asymmetric reduction of ketones:<br />

This reaction can be performed in a number of ways. Asymmetric<br />

chemocatalysis, 30a<br />

and the often complementary biocatalysis offer solutions to the<br />

stereoselective reduction of C=O groups. These two techniques have found wide industrial<br />

applications. 30b<br />

From the perspective of green chemistry, asymmetric biocatalytic<br />

reduction has attracted a lot of attention, 31 and many new biocatalytic systems using both<br />

whole cells and isolated enzymes have been developed. 32 For example, the Baker’s yiest<br />

mediated reduction of ethyl acetoacetate to the alcohol 31 (Scheme II.1.1) is extensively<br />

used in organic synthesis. 33a<br />

O<br />

O<br />

i OH O<br />

100% conversion.<br />

98% ee<br />

OC 2 H 5 OC 2 H 5<br />

30 31<br />

(i) Baker’s yeast, sucrose, H 2 O, 40 o C, 24 h.<br />

Scheme II.1.1<br />

Regarding the use of pure enzymes, the reductase from Pichia Methanolica SC<br />

13825 was cloned and expressed in E. Coli and the recombinant culture has been used for<br />

preparative scale reduction of methyl 4-(2’-acetyl-5’-fluorophenyl) (32) with excellent<br />

yield (98%) and ee (99%) (Scheme II.1.2). 33b<br />

O<br />

OH<br />

O<br />

H 3 C<br />

i<br />

O<br />

H 3 C<br />

H 3 CO<br />

F<br />

H 3 CO<br />

32 33<br />

F<br />

(i) Alcohol dehydrogenase from Pichia Methanolica (overexpressed in E. Coli), glucose,<br />

glucose dehydrogenase.<br />

21

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