BIOTRANSFORMATIONS - PART XLVI - APPLE-TREE SHOOTS AND TRANSFORMED CARROT AND APPLE ROOTS USED AS BIOCATALYSTS IN ENANTIOSELECTIVE ACETATE HYDROLYSIS, ALCOHOL OXIDATION AND KETONE REDUCTION

(+/-)-1-Phenylethyl (1), (+/-)-1-(1-naphthyl)ethyl (2), (+/-)-1-(2-nap hthyl)ethyl (3) and (+/-)-menthyl (4) acetates were hydrolyzed using a pple-tree shoots and hairy roots of carrot and apple-tree to afford al cohols, which, subsequently, in the same environment, were oxygenated to ketones. Pure (S)-1-(2-naphthyl)ethanol ((S)-(-)-7), (R)-1-phenylet hyl acetate ((R)-(+)-1), (R)-1-(1-naphthyl)ethyl acetate ((R)-(+)-2), (S)-1-phenylethanol ((S)-(-)-5) and (-)-menthol (1R,2S,5R)-(-)-8) have been produced.