The esterification of phenylpropanoid and hydrophenylpropanoid acids, catalyzed by candida antarctica lipase B (CAL-B), with several alcohols has demonstrated that the substitution pattern on the aromatic ring has a very significant influence on the reactivity of the carboxyl group due, mainly, to electronic effects, when compared to the unsaturated acids with the hydrogenated acids. It is also...

An improved gram-scale synthesis of Bn5CpRu(CO)2Cl is reported based on heating of pentabenzylcyclopentadiene with Ru3(CO)12 at 160 °C under argon atmosphere in mesitylene followed by addition of chloroform, continued heating, and evaporation of the solvents. Subsequent washing of unreacted ligand precursor with hexane provided pure title compound in 77 % yield. In combination with Candida anta...

The enzymatic ring-opening copolymerization of ε-caprolactone (ε-CL) and β-lactam by using Candida antarctica lipase B (CAL-B) as catalyst was studied. Variation of the feed ratios of 25:75, 50:50, and 75:25 of ε-CL/β-lactam was performed. The products contain poly(ε-CL-co-β-lactam) and the homopolymers of poly(ε-CL) and poly(β-lactam). The structure of the copolymers was determined by MALDI-To...

In this work, we have demonstrated the suitability of a novel Deep Eutectic Solvent (DES) composed cholinium dihydrogen phosphate and ethylene glycol at molar ratio 1:2 (ChDHP:EG) to extract Candida antarctica lipase B from aqueous solutions non-ionic surfactants Triton X-100 Tween 80. The binodal curves were firstly explored temperatures between 298.15 333.15 K experimental data correlated by ...

Dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) is one of the most attractive methods for enantioselective synthesis. In reported studies, lipase B from Candida antarctica (CALB) immobilized on siliceous mesoporous cellular foams (MCF) functionalized with different hydrophobic groups, and two ruthenium complexes substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands were investigated as catalysts chemoenzymatic DKR (rac)-1-phe...