Abstract
Incubation of alcoholic solutions of benzoylacetonitrile, 1, with a suitable aqueous culture of C. lunata results in highly diastereo- and enantioselective reactions leading to α-alkyl β-hydroxy nitriles 3, which are easily reduced to the corresponding γ-amino alcohols 6.
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