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.