a Istituto CNR per lo Studio delle Sostanze Naturali, via del Santuario 110, 95028 Valverde CT, Italy
b Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy
Abstract:
Regioselective derivatisation of resveratrol (1) at positions 3, 5 or 4′ was achieved by a chemo-enzymatic procedure based on standard chemical reactions and esterification or alcoholysis in organic solvents catalysed by the commercially available Pseudomonas cepacia (PcL) and Candida antarctica (CaL) lipases.