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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2007
Applicants:
Nobushige Itaya, Nishinomiya, JP;
Hiroshi Maeda, Osaka, JP;
Yuki Sato, Amagasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 1/00 (2006.01); C12P 7/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided is a method capable of industrially producing optically active (S)-7-hydroxy-6-methylheptan-2-one and its precursor simply and efficiently. The production method, allows a R-body preferentially hydrolyzablemicroorganism-derived esterase to act on a 2-methyl-6-oxoheptanoate (II), to produce an optically active (S)-2-methyl-6-oxoheptanoate (III).