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A thioesterase for chemoselective hydrolysis of S-acyl sulfanylalkanoates
1Department of Chemistry, Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39, Chandigarh 160 036, India.
Organic Letters
|June 30, 2001
Abstract:
[figure: see text] A thioesterase, isolated from a strain of Alcaligenes sp. ISH108, chemoselectively hydrolyzes thiol esters. The application of the enzyme has been demonstrated in the preparation of the antihypertensive agent captopril.