## Abstract The low solubility of sugars has hampered the lipaseβcatalyzed synthesis of fatty acid sugar esters in organic solvents and ionic liquids (ILs), because several solvents that are able to effectively dissolve sugars are detrimental to enzymes. In this work, in order to prepare a high con
Synthesis of sugar fatty acid esters by modified lipase
β Scribed by Wakako Tsuzuki; Yoshiaki Kitamura; Tateo Suzuki; Shoichi Kobayashi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3592
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β¦ Synopsis
A simple synthesis of sugar fatty acid esters was developed in a nonaqueous solution using lipase modified by synthetic detergent. Esterification of sugar was accelerated by continuous removal of water from the reaction mixture with a molecular sieve. When glucose and palmitic acid (1:1 by mole) were used as the starting substrates, more than 90% of glucose was converted to its ester in this system. The resultant product was 6-O-palmitoylglucose. Other mono-or disaccharides were also esterified by the modified lipase with high yield. It was shown that the modified lipase might act as a catalyst for the synthesis of sugar fatty acid esters.
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