Green Chemistry

A clean enzymatic process for producing flavour esters by direct esterification in switchable ionic liquid/solid phases

P Lozano, JM Bernal, A Navarro

Index: Lozano, Pedro; Bernal, Juana M.; Navarro, Alicia Green Chemistry, 2012 , vol. 14, # 11 p. 3026 - 3033

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Abstract

A clean biocatalytic approach for producing flavour esters using switchable ionic liquid/solid phases as reaction/separation media has been developed. The phase behaviour of different IL/flavour acetyl ester (geranyl acetate, citronellyl acetate, neryl acetate and isoamyl acetate) mixtures was studied at several concentrations, resulting for all cases in fully homogeneous liquid media at 50 C, and solid systems at room temperature. By using an iterative ...