The use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
✍
Melanie K Johns; Andrew J Smallridge; Maurie A Trewhella
📂
Article
📅
2001
🏛
Elsevier Science
🌐
French
⚖ 38 KB
The yeast mediated reduction of ethyl acetoacetate to ethyl (S)-3-hydroxy butyrate proceeds with good yield and high enantioselectivity in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It was found that slightly more water (2 ml/g yeast) and more yeast (1.6 g/mmol substrate) were required to effect complete conver