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A hydrophobic polymer, Amberlite™ XAD, was used as material to control the stereochemical course of microbial reductions. In the presence of XAD, simple aliphatic and aromatic ketones were reduced to the corresponding (S)-alcohols in excellent enantiomeric excess (ee) while low enantioselectivities were observed in the absence of the polymer.
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Nakamura et al. (2000) studied this question.
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