MICROBIAL SYNTHESIS OF OPTICALLY PURE -TRIMETHYL-3-(2'-HYDROXYETHYL)-CYCLOHEX-2-EN-1-OL, A NEW AND VERSATILE CHIRAL BUILDING-BLOCK FOR TERPENE SYNTHESIS
G. Aranda et al., MICROBIAL SYNTHESIS OF OPTICALLY PURE -TRIMETHYL-3-(2'-HYDROXYETHYL)-CYCLOHEX-2-EN-1-OL, A NEW AND VERSATILE CHIRAL BUILDING-BLOCK FOR TERPENE SYNTHESIS, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 6(3), 1995, pp. 675-678
The hydroxylation of 2,4,4-trimethyl-3-(2'-hydroxyethyl)-2-cyclohexene
by Mucor plumbeus, after usual work up and a subsequent single crysta
llization, gave the corresponding optically pure (1R)-hydroxy synthon.