Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 102, Issue 2, Pages 507-512Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.08.095
Keywords
Glycerol derivatives; Asymmetric acylation of glycerol; Transesterification; Lipases; Regioselectivity
Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CTQ2009-07568]
- CSIC
- National fund of Science and Technology (FONACIT, Caracas, Venezuela)
- USB-Petrobras [362108]
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Partial acylation of only one primary hydroxyl group of glycerol generates a chiral center at position 2. Rhizomucor miehei lipase (RML) catalyzes the kinetically controlled transesterification of different aromatic carboxylic acids methyl esters with glycerol. High synthetic yields of glyceryl esters (around 70-80%) were obtained even in the presence of significant concentrations of water (from 5% to 20%). After a long incubation of the reaction mixture in the presence of the biocatalyst only pure free acid was obtained. Other lipases (from Geobacillus thermocatenulatus and from Thermomyces lanuginose) also catalyzed similar kinetically controlled transesterifications although less efficiently. RML immobilized on Sepharose-Q showed a high activity and specificity, compared to the immobilization by other techniques, only producing monoglyceryl esters with all substrates. In particular, monoglyceryl-phenylmalonate product was synthesized in 82% overall yield and >99% diastereomeric excess at pH 7.0 and 37 degrees C and 90% glycerol. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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