Journal
APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 166, Issue 1, Pages 13-21Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12010-011-9399-4
Keywords
Cymbopogon winterianus; Essential oil; Esterification; Lipase
Funding
- CNPq
- CAPES
- FAPERGS
- URI-Campus de Erechim
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Enzymatic esterification of citronella essential oil towards the production of geranyl and citronellyl esters may present great scientific and technological interest due to the well-known drawbacks of the chemical-catalyzed route. In this context, this work reports the maximization of geranyl and citronellyl esters production by esterification of oleic and propionic acids in a solvent-free system using a commercial immobilized lipase as catalyst. Results of the reactions showed that the strategy adopted for the experimental design proved to be useful in evaluating the effects of the studied variables on the reaction conversion using Novozym 435 as catalyst. The operating conditions that maximized the production of each ester were determined, leading, in a general way, to conversions of about 90% for all systems. New experimental data on enzymatic esterification of crude citronella essential oil for geranyl and citronellyl esters production in solvent-free system are reported in this work.
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