As our fossil raw materials irrevocably diminish and environmental pressures build, a
progressive changeover of chemical industries to renewable feedstocks emerges as an …

Though designed by nature to effect hydrolysis of lipids, lipases can, under appropriate
reaction conditions, promote ester formation through reaction of acids and alcohols …

From reviews to the first edtion:" Bornscheuer and Kazlauskas have set out, and succeeded,
in producing a definitive manual on hydrolytic enzymes (especially lipases, esterases, and …

Interest in green chemistry and clean processes has grown so much in recent years that
topics such as fluorous biphasic catalysis, metal organic frameworks, and process …

An overview is given of newly developed Lewis or Brønsted acid and base catalysts for
esterification, transesterification and ester interchange reactions. The most relevant …

Nine commercial lipases from Pseudomonas sp.(lipase PS), Pseudomonas fluorescens
(lipase AK), Candida rugosa (lipase AY), Rhizopus delemar (lipase D), Mucor javanicus …

The knowledge of the solubility behavior of different lipid classes in supercritical carbon
dioxide (SCCO2) is of great importance in the design of SCCO2 fractionation, extraction, and …

This work investigates the influence of temperature, pressure, exposure times and
depressurization rate on the activity of two commercial immobilized lipases submitted to …

A continuous process for the glycerolysis of soybean oil with pure and crude glycerol, the co‐
product from the transesterification of soybean oil, was investigated in a pilot plant. The …

The production of extracellular lipases by staphylococcal species has been known for many
years [1, 2]. Interest in these lipases was originally stimulated by observations that certain …