Abstract Lipase-catalyzed reaction of 3-hydroxybutyric acid with d-glucono-δ-lactone at 5: 1 molar ratio and 80 C yielded a mixture of moderate molecular weight linear and cyclic oligomers. The most efficient biocatalyst, Candida antarctica B lipase (Novozyme 435), allowed the synthesis of new oligomeric compounds with ring-opened gluconolactone units included in the oligomeric chain, without previous derivatization of the sugar, or activation ...
[Liaquat, Muhammad; Khan, Saeed; Aslam, Sher; Khan, Ayub; Khan, Hakim; Khan, Shah Masaud; Ali, Sardar; Wahab, Said; Bhatti, Haq Nawaz Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan, 2012 , vol. 34, # 1 p. 144 - 150]