Enantioselective reduction of selected alpha-aryloketones in Coryneum betulinum KCh 6534 and Chaetomium sp KCh 6651 cultures

摘要

Fifteen alpha-aryloketones were biotransformed to resp. enantimerically pure EtOH or tetralol derivatives by using Coryneum betulinum KCh 6534 and Chaetomium sp. KCh 6651 strains of filamentous fungi. A very high substrate specificity and a significant impact of the substrate structure on the conversion and enantioselectivity of the redn. were obsd. In the culture of C. Betulinum, enantiomarically pure (S)-1-(1-naphthyl)-ethanol and (S)-1-(6-tetralino)-ethanol were obtained. On the contrary, both (S)-(1-(4-bromophenyl)-ethanol and 1-cyclohexylethanol) as well as (R)-(1-(4-methylphenyl)ethanol and (R)-7-methoxy-1-tetralol were produced in the culture of Chaetomium species in high enantiomeric excess.