The product has been used as a substrate for carbonyl reductase from
Sporobolomyces salmonicolor, wherein it was reduced to the corresponding (R)-chiral alcohol.
[1] It has also been used as a substrate for the enantioselective reduction by 3 biocatalysts, namely,
Didymosphaeria igniaria, Coryneum betulinum and
Chaetomium sp.
[2]