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Sang Hyun Lee1, Sung Ho Ha, Sun Bok Lee
1Department of Biological Engineering, ERC for Advanced Bioseparation Technology, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Korea.
Abstract:
The adverse influence of chloride impurities on the lipase-catalyzed transesterification in ionic liquid is described. The activity of lipase from Rhizomucor miehei exponentially decreased with increasing Cl(-) content in 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl] amide, [Omim][Tf(2)N], and the activity of lipase in [Omim][Tf(2)N] mixture containing 2% [Omim] [Cl] was only about 2% of the activity in pure [Omim][Tf(2)N]. The activity of lipase from Candidantarctica linearly decreased at about 5% with every 1% increase in [Omim][Cl] with there being no activity in [Omim][Tf(2)N] containing about 20% [Omim][Cl].
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