Sb. Raju et al., LIPASE-CATALYZED KINETIC RESOLUTION OF PHARMACEUTICALLY USEFUL CHLOROALCOHOLS IN HEPTANE, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 6(7), 1995, pp. 1519-1520
Pharmaceutically useful chloro alcohols, 3-chloro-1-phenyl-1-propanol(
1), 1-chloro-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-2-propanol (2) and 4-chloro-1-(4-tert-b
utylphenyl)-1-butanol (3), are prepared in enantiomerically pure form
by an efficient lipase PS catalyzed transesterification in heptane. Th
e effect of organic solvent nature on enzyme activity was also studied
.