Js. Yadav et al., Soybean lipoxygenase and horseradish peroxidase catalysed asymmetric oxidation-reduction sequence for the synthesis of chiral (Z,E) diene-diols, SYNLETT, (6), 2001, pp. 787-788
Unnatural synthetic substrates with a properly spaced prosthetic modifier h
aving non-ionic hydroxy terminus undergoes soybean lipoxygenase catalysed a
symmetric peroxidation followed by horseradish peroxidase induced reduction
affords (Z, E)-diene-diol in high enantiomeric excess.