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Enzymatic silicone oligomerization catalyzed by a lipid-coated lipase
Hidekazu Nishino1, Toshiaki Mori, Yoshio Okahata
1Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuda, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 4, 2003
Abstract:
A lipid (1)-coated lipase can catalyze the oligomerization of diethoxydimethylsilane (DEDMS) in isooctane containing 2wt% water, where the polymerization occurs at the OH group of the coating lipid (1) in the enzyme cavity.