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PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 98, Issue -, Pages 59-64Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2020.07.016
Keywords
Ionic liquid; Biocatalysis; Enzyme activation; Enzymatic ring-opening polymerization; Nonaqueous solvent
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- National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry (CHE) [1954120]
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) [60077-ND4]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1954120] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Novel dual-functionalized ammonium-based hydrophobic ionic liquids (ILs) have been synthesized by mimicking the water structure to carry both ether group (hydrogen-bond acceptor) and tert-alcohol group (hydrogen-bond donor). These ammonium-type ionic solvents exhibit the advantage of lower viscosities (as low as 129 mPa sat 30 degrees C) than the imidazolium analogue ( similar to 300 mPa sat 30 degrees C); more importantly, these water-like media are highly compatible with immobilized Candida antarctica lipase B (Novozym 435) in terms of producing high transesterification activities (1.5-fold higher than that in tert-butanol, and slightly higher than that in diisopropyl ether) and higher thermal stability than that in tert-butanol. To demonstrate the utilization of this new solvent system, enzymatic ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of epsilon-caprolactone using these water-like ILs as co-solvents was carried out to synthesize polyesters, achieving high molecular mass M-w (up to 18,000 Da) and high yields (up to 74 %).
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