The reaction mixture (40 mL) consisted of 100 mM glycine‐NaOH buffer (pH 9.0), (
RS)‐
2 c (50.0 mg, 0.197 mmol), 100 mM NaBH
4, and 4 U purified enzyme was stirred at 1.3×10
3 rpm at 30 °C for 1 hr in a 1 L eggplant flask. The progress of the reaction was monitored by HPLC with an OD‐H column (φ 0.46 cm ×25 cm, Daicel Chiral Technologies Co. Ltd, Tokyo, JAPAN) using a solvent system of hexane: 2‐propanol=9 : 1 (Absorbance: 220 nm, Flow rate: 1 mL/min, column temperature: 30 °C). The reaction was quenched by addition of 1 M NaOH. The aqueous phase was extracted by hexane (40 mL×3), and then, the hexane layer was dried
in vacuo. The remaining product was analyzed by
1H‐NMR and by optical rotation measurement. The
1H NMR spectra were recorded on the Bruker Biospin
AVANCE II 400 (Bruker Biospin, Rheinstetten, Germany) system. Optical rotation was determined by
ATAGO AP‐300 (Atago Co., Tokyo, Japan) by using a 10.1‐mm cell. The optical purity of the isolated (
R)‐
2 c was 95.7 % e.e. with an isolation yield of 46.2 % (19.8 mg, 0.091 mmol). The
1H‐NMR spectra were shown as follows:
2 c (400 MHz; DMSO‐d
6) δ
H (ppm) 7.18‐7.43 (m, 9H), 5.09 (s, 1H), 2.33 (s, 2H). [ɑ]
D27−9.99° (c 1.0, EtOH) (lit. [ɑ]
D20−10.6 (c 1.1, EtOH) for the (
R)‐enantiomer, [ɑ]
D20+10.8 (c 2.18, EtOH) for the (
S)‐enantiomer.).
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