Preparative asymmetric deoxygenation of
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Mitsuru Abo; Akira Okubo; Sunao Yamazaki
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Preparative enantioselective deoxygenation of racemic alkyl aryl sulfoxides by intact cells of Rhodobacter sphaeroides f.sp. denitrificans was examined. In methyl p-substituted phenyl sulfoxides, (S)-enantiomers were exclusively deoxygenated while enantiomerically pure (R)-isomers were recovered in