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Hydrophobic Salt-modified Nafion for Enzyme Immobilization and Stabilization
Published on: July 11, 2012
Novel immobilization method of enzymes using a hydrophilic polymer support
Juta Kobayashi1, Yuichiro Mori, Shū Kobayashi
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, The HFRE Division, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, JST, Hongo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
Abstract:
A novel immobilization of an enzyme with a hydrophilic polymer support in organic solvents has been developed utilizing the "polymer-incarcerated (PI) method", which has been used to immobilize metal catalysts; the kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols was found to proceed more smoothly using immobilized lipases (CALB) than free lipases.

