TY - GEN AU - Ola Khaldoon Alsakka AU - Daisy Fleita , AU - Mohammed Helmi Elnagdi , TI - Biocatalysis in organic synthesis : Enzymatic reduction of polyfunctional ketones by biocatalysis and utility of products in synthetic organic chemistry / PY - 2008/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ola Khaldoon Alsakka , KW - 1H - NMR , 13C - NMR , MS KW - Baker's yeast chiral polyfunctional alcohols KW - Biotransformations N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Science - Department Of Organic Chemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - This work has been carried out to investigate the reduction of a variety of polyfunctional ketones by the action of baker's yeast in aqueous medium , novel optically active alcohols have been isolated.The structures of the synthesized alcohols were proven by spectroscopic analysis including 1H - NMR , 13C - NMR and mass spectroscopy UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -