Plant cell cultures of carrot have been used to effect the asymmetric reduction of 2-oxo-4-phenylbutanoic acid ethyl ester to (R)-2-hydroxy-4-phenylbutanoic acid ethyl ester in high enantiomeric excess and yield.

Anju Chadha

Department Of Biotechnology

M. Manohar

T. Soundararajan

T.S. Lokeswari

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Journal	Indian Journal of Chemistry - Section B Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
ISSN	03764699