V. Bardot et al., MICROBIAL SYNTHESIS OF (-(3R)-ETHYL 3-HYDROXY-3-(3,4-DIMETHOXYPHENYL)PROPIONATE()), Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 7(4), 1996, pp. 1077-1088
From the microbiological reduction of ethyl 3-oxo-3-(3,4-dimethoxyphen
yl)propionate, (+)-(3R)-ethyl 3-hydroxy-3-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)propion
ate was prepared on a quantitative scale. The absolute configuration w
as assigned by X-ray structural determination of the crystallized camp
hanate derivative. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd