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Generation and trapping of ketenes in flow
Henry, Cyril,Bolien, David,Ibanescu, Bogdan,Bloodworth, Sally,Harrowven, David C.,Zhang, Xunli,Craven, Andy,Sneddon, Helen F.,Whitby, Richard J.
, p. 1491 - 1499 (2015)
Ketenes were generated by the thermolysis of alkoxyalkynes under flow conditions, and then trapped with amines and alcohols to cleanly give amides and esters. For a 10 min reaction time, temperatures of 180, 160, and 140 °C were required for >95% conversion of EtO, iPrO, and tBuO alkoxyalkynes, respectively. Variation of the temperature and flow rate with inline monitoring of the output by IR spectroscopy allowed the kinetic parameters for the conversion of 1-ethoxy-1-octyne to be easily estimated (Ea = 105.4 kJ/mol). Trapping of the in-situ-generated ketenes by alcohols to give esters required the addition of a tertiary amine catalyst to prevent competitive [2+2] addition of the ketene to the alkoxyalkyne precursor.
Specific enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis and synthesis in aqueous and organic medium using biocatalysts with lipase activity from Aspergillus niger MYA 135
Romero, Cintia M.,Pera, Licia M.,Loto, Flavia,Baigori, Mario D.
, p. 1361 - 1368 (2013/01/15)
In the present study, the specific hydrolytic activity of three biocatalysts such as the constitutive mycelium-bound lipase, the induced mycelium-bound lipase and the lyophilized induced supernatant from A. niger MYA 135 was evaluated in both aqueous and organic media.A direct correlation between activity in water and n-hexane was not observed for the same hydrolytic reaction. The n-hexane/water activity ratio (RO/A) was applied to characterize the activity in organic medium. The three biocatalysts showed RO/A values higher than 1 for hydrolysis of long-chain fatty acid esters, demonstrating a higher specific hydrolytic activity in organic solvent than in water. A different behavior was observed during hydrolysis of middle-chain fatty acid esters, which was higher in aqueous medium (R O/Adw) observed in a reaction mixture containing propanol and p-nitrophenyl laurate. Finally, both p-nitrophenyl caprate (C10) and p-nitrophenyl laurate (C12) were preferentially methanolized by the lyophilized induced supernatant, being this lipase activity the most specific biocatalyst preparation under transesterification conditions. A selectivity-based analysis of each lipase preparation toward transesterification or hydrolysis in organic medium was evaluated as well. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.