Baker's yeast mediated reduction of substituted acenaphthenequinones: Regio- and enantioselective preparation of mono-hydroxyacenaphthenones

• Xing Yong Wang ^a,b, ,
• Jing Nan Cui ^a, ,
• Wei Min Ren ^a, ,
• Feng Li ^a, ,
• Chun Liang Lu ^a, ,
• Xu Hong Qian ^c,

• a State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China;

• b School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou 221008, China;

• c Shanghai Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China

• Received Date: 17 November 2006
  
• Fund Project:

  We are grateful to the National Key Project for Basic Research (No. 2003CB114400) and Technology Foundation of Shanghai (No. 04DZ05605) for financial support.