Tandem Concurrent Processes: One-Pot Single-Catalyst Biohydrogen Transfer for the Simultaneous Preparation of Enantiopure Secondary Alcohols

A novel one-pot tandem biohydrogen transfer process to concurrently obtain two enantiopure sec-alcohols is presented; thus, using a suitable single enzyme and a catalytic amount of cofactor, several interesting building blocks could be easily achieved in an enantiocomplementary fashion, minimizing dramatically the quantity of reagents usually employed in the coupled-substrate approach.