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Peer reviewedPatterson, James; Sigurdsson, Snorri Th. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2005
The reduction of ethyl acetoacetate using common baker's yeast is a traditional experiment that shows the stereoselective power of a biochemical system. Addition of organic solvents to aqueous reaction system increased the yields and reproducibility of the experiment thus overcoming the two problems associated with the experiment, low yield, and…
Descriptors: Food, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Science Education
