All articles of this category Methoxycarbonylmethyl carboxymethyl sulfoxide 3 and 2-acetoxyethyl 2-hydroxyethyl sulfoxide 4 have been obtained in high enantiomeric purity by the enzyme-mediated hydrolysis of the corresponding prochiral sulfinyldicarboxylates 1 and 2 . The R configuration has been assigned to the enantiomerically pure (-)- 3 , [α] D 20 -20, by X-ray analysis.
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Mikołajczyk et al. (1994) studied this question.