REDUCTION OF CARBOXYLATES TO ALKANOLS CATALYZED BY COLLETOTRICHUM GLOEOSPOROIDES

Sodium carboxylates (C-6-C-10) are effectively reduced to the correspo nding alcohols by growing cultures of Colletotricum gloeosporoides in a preparatively useful way; intermediacy of the aldehydes is establish ed by deuterium incorporation experiments; the-unusual reducing capaci ty is proposed as an useful procedure for the preparation of alcohols of value as aroma components.