Hydroxy functional acrylate and methacrylate monomers prepared via lipase—catalyzed transacylation reactions

D Popescu, R Hoogenboom, H Keul…

Index: Popescu, Dragos; Hoogenboom, Richard; Keul, Helmut; Moeller, Martin Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic, 2010 , vol. 62, # 1 p. 80 - 89

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 12

Abstract

Candida antarctica lipase B (CAL-B, Novozyme 435) catalyzes the transacylation of methyl acrylate and methyl methacrylate with diols and triols in 2-methyl-2-butanol at 50° C. Under the experimental conditions, up to 70mol% of the acyl donor methyl acrylate was converted. Methyl methacrylate is the less efficient acyl donor (up to 60mol%) due to the higher sterical hindrance in the enzymatic transacylation. Under the reaction conditions high yields of the ...