Tetrahedron Letters vol. 36, no. 15, pp. 2637 - 2638
Indexed
SCI; SCIE; SCOPUS
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Benzoylformic acid is reduced electrocatalytically to mandelic acid in excellent yield in the presence of methyl viologen of which two-electron reduction product behaves as active reductant, and the presence of β-CD or its derivative induces enantioselectivity.