O. Leoni et al., THE FORMATION OF 2-HYDROXYBUT-3-ENYL CYANIDE FROM (2S)-2-HYDROXYBUT-3-ENYL GLUCOSINOLATE USING IMMOBILIZED MYROSINASE, Tetrahedron letters, 34(49), 1993, pp. 7967-7970
Starting from (2S)-2-hydroxybut-3-enylglucosinolate (epi-progoitrin) i
solated from Crambe abyssinica seeds the chiralic 2-hydroxy-3-butenyl
cyanide was produced in pure form and acceptable yield, using immobili
zed myrosinase purified from Sinapis alba on a Nylon 6.6 membrane.