1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Solvent Engineering on Enzymatic Synthesis of Edible Surfactants
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06453175
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
食品科学・栄養科学
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUNO Ryuichi Kyoto University, Department of Food Science and Technology, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (30032931)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KIMURA Yukitaka Kyoto University, Department of Food Science and Technology, Instructor, 農学部, 助手 (70211878)
ADACHI Shuji Kyoto University, Department of Food Science and Technology, Associate Professor, 農学部, 助教授 (90115783)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1996
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| Keywords | Solvent Engineering / Surfactant / Condensation / Biocatalyst / beta-Glucosidase / Lipase |
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| Research Abstract |
Enzymatic synthesis of edible surfactants from hydrophilic and hydrophobic ingredients in food was invesigated. In the first stage of this investigation, b-glucosidase-catalyzed synthesis of alkyl glucosides was made to understand phenomena occuring in such synthetic reaction, although the glucosides are not edible but have a wide range of industrial use. We proposed the equations to predict the yields of desired product and by-products in a conventional aqueous-organic biphasic system, where one of substrates, alcohol, itself was an organic phase. It was found that the equilibrium constant for condensation of glucose and alcohol was independent of the alkyl chain length of alcohol. We proposed a novel reaction system where solid enzyme and glucose were added to alcohol saturated with a buffer. The equilibrium yield of alkyl glucoside in the proposed system was much higher than that in the conventional two-phase system. High stability of the enzyme in the system allowed its reuse in subsequent condensation. It was also found in the system that both of (R) -and (S) -isomers of secondary alcohol could be condensed with glucose by the enzyme to give corresponding glucosides in high yield. A packing material for effective liquid-chromatographic separation of alkyl glucoside and alcohol was found out. A model was proposed to explain the dependence of elution times of solutes on the composition of eluent. Simple methods were proposed for estimation of adsorption isotherm of a solute on an adesorbent from only a pulse response curve ofthe solute. Acylation of erythritol and ascorbic acid by immobilized lipase was also examined. The acylation proceeded stereoselectively in acetonitril with extremely low content of water. The products were identified to be desired products by NMR analysis.
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