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Metabolism of bromobenzene and iodobenzene by growing cultures of Pseudomonas putida UV4 gave the corresponding cis-dihydrodiol products 1 and 2 in high yields; subsequent direct chemical substitution of the halogen atoms in these metabolites provided a new range of enantiomerically pure cis-dihydrodiols of known absolute configuration.
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Boyd et al. (1991) studied this question.
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