Large-sized test tubes were charged with 7 mL of said medium B and, after sterilization, inoculated with the bacteria shown in Table 2, respectively. Then, aerobic shake culture was carried out at 30° C. for 1 day. From the resulting culture broth, the cells were harvested by centrifugation and suspended in 0.5 mL of 50 mM phosphate buffer (pH 6.5) containing 0.5% of tert-butyl(5S)-6-chloro-5-hydroxy-3-oxohexanoate and 1.5% of glucose. The suspension was placed in a 10 mL test tube equipped with a stopper and the reaction was carried out under shaking at 30° C. for 20 hours. After completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was extracted with 0.5 mL of ethyl acetate and the ethyl acetate phase was analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography (column: Nakalai-Tesque's Cosmocil 5CN-R (4.6 mm×250 mm), eluent: 1 mM phosphoric acid/H2O:acetonitrile=5:1, flow rate: 0.7 mL/min., detection: at 210 nm, column temperature: 30° C.) for reaction rate and for the diastereomer ratio of the product tert-butyl(3R,5S)-6-chloro-3,5-dihydroxyhexanoate. The results are shown in Table 2.
