Deracemization of (±)-mandelic acid using a lipase–mandelate racemase two-enzyme system

Autor: Kurt Faber, Ulrike T. Strauss
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Tetrahedron: Asymmetry. 10:4079-4081
ISSN: 0957-4166
DOI: 10.1016/s0957-4166(99)00436-x
Popis: Deracemization of (±)-mandelic acid was achieved by using a novel two-enzyme process consisting of: (i) Pseudomonas sp. lipase catalyzed O-acylation of (±)-mandelic acid in diisopropyl ether; followed by (ii) mandelate racemase catalyzed racemization of the remaining unreacted (R)-mandelic acid in aqueous buffer. When this one-pot sequence was repeated four times, (S)-O-acetylmandelic acid was obtained in 80% isolated yield and >98% ee as the sole product.
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