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A zeolite-enzyme combination for biphasic dynamic kinetic resolution of benzylic alcohols
Stijn Wuyts1, Karolien De Temmerman, Dirk De Vos
1Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KULeuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 23, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 23, 2003
Abstract:
Acid zeolites like H-Beta are efficient heterogeneous catalysts for racemization of benzylic alcohols in water; by combination of the racemization with an enzymatic kinetic resolution in a two-phase system, enantiomerically pure esters were obtained in high yield via a dynamic kinetic resolution.