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Pseudomonas cepacia lipase (PSL) efficiently catalyses the kinetic resoluti
on of (+/-)-cis- and (+/-)-trans-1-aminoindan-2-ol through the O-acylation
reaction of the corresponding N-benzyloxycarbonyl derivative using vinyl ac
etate as the acyl donor. In a similar way, cis-N-Cbz-2-aminoindan-1-ol is r
esolved when isopropenyl acetate is used as the acylating agent. The enanti
oselectivity of the reaction was lower for (+/-)-trans-N-Cbz-2-aminoindan-1
-ol due to the different steric requirements for the two conformers of this
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