Highly Recyclable Chemo‐/Biocatalyzed Cascade Reactions with Ionic Liquids: One‐Pot Synthesis of Chiral Biaryl Alcohols

Abstract

Mix and match: We report a cascade reaction sequence for the highly enantio- and diastereoselective synthesis of biaryl alcohols, employing a Suzuki coupling followed by a biocatalytic reduction in a biphasic system containing ionic liquids (ILs; see figure). We demonstrate the recyclability of the IL phase as well as the aqueous phase up to four cycles with only a negligible deactivation of reactivity and selectivity. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.