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Hydrolysis of racemic chloral acetyl methyl acetal using lipase from Candida cylindraceae, porcine pancreatic lipase or cholesterol esterase gives the optically pure (−)-enantiomer whereas hydrolysis using subtilisin gives the pure (+)-enantiomer.
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Chênevert et al. (1990) studied this question.
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