Kinetic resolution of rac-alkyl alcohols via lipase-catalyzed enantioselective acylation using succinic anhydride as acylating agent |
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Authors: | Yuanhong Wang Rui Wang Quanshun Li Zuoming Zhang Yan Feng |
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Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, 130023 Changchun, China;2. Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, 130024 Changchun, China |
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Abstract: | With succinic anhydride as acylating agent, three commercial lipases – Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB), Pseudomonas cepacia lipase and Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase – were employed in the kinetic resolution of a series of rac-alkyl alcohols: 2-butanol, 2-pentanol, 2-hexanol, 2-heptanol, 2-octanol, 3-hexanol, 3-methyl-2-butanol, 6-methyl-5-heptene-2-ol, 3-methyl-2-cyclohexene-1-ol and 2-methyl-1-pentanol. The most effective tested enzyme, immobilized CALB, was able to resolve most of the alcohols with high enantioselectivity, even higher (with enantiomeric ratios up to 115 and 91, for 3-hexanol and 3-methyl-2-butanol, respectively) than when vinyl acetate was used as the acylating agent. More importantly, the unreacted alcohol and the monoester succinate produced could be easily separated by a simple aqueous base-organic solvent liquid–liquid extraction. Using succinic anhydride as acylating agent and CALB, enantiomerically pure (S)-2-pentanol with 99% ee and (R)-2-pentanol with 95% ee were prepared in gram-scale reactions. |
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