Optimization of chemoenzymatic Baeyer–Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone to ε‐caprolactone using response surface methodology

ε‐Caprolactone (ε‐CL) has attracted a great deal of attention and a high product concentration is of great significance for reducing production cost. The optimization of ε‐CL synthesis through chemoenzymatic Baeyer–Villiger oxidation mediated by immobilized Trichosporon laibacchii lipase was studied...

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Published in:Biotechnology progress 2020-01, Vol.36 (1), p.e2901-n/a
Main Authors: Zhang, Yuanyuan, Jiang, Weiwei, Lv, Kuiying, Sun, Yangjian, Gao, Xin, Zhao, Qiuxiang, Ren, Wenjie, Wang, Fanye, Liu, Junhong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acetic acid
Baeyer–Villiger oxidation
caprolactone
Cyclohexanone
Hydrogen peroxide
Lipase
Optimization
Oxidation
Peracetic acid
Polynomials
Production costs
Response surface methodology
response surface optimization
Trichosporon laibacchi lipase
Urea
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Summary:ε‐Caprolactone (ε‐CL) has attracted a great deal of attention and a high product concentration is of great significance for reducing production cost. The optimization of ε‐CL synthesis through chemoenzymatic Baeyer–Villiger oxidation mediated by immobilized Trichosporon laibacchii lipase was studied using response surface methodology (RSM). The yield of ε‐CL was 98.06% with about 1.2 M ε‐CL concentration that has a substantial increase mainly due to both better stability of the cross‐linked immobilized lipase used and the optimum reaction conditions in which the concentration of cyclohexanone was 1.22 M, the molar ratio of cyclohexanone:urea hydrogen peroxide (UHP) was 1:1.3, and the reaction temperature was 56.5°C. Based on our experimental results, it can be safely concluded that there are three reactions in this reaction system, not just two reactions, in which the third reaction is that the acetic acid formed reacts with UHP to form peracetic acid in situ catalyzed by the immobilized lipase. A quadratic polynomial model based on RSM experimental results was developed and the R2 value of the equation is 0.9988, indicating that model can predict the experimental results with high precision. The experimental results also show that the molar ratio of cyclohexanone to UHP has very significant impact on the yield of ε‐CL (p 
ISSN:8756-7938
1520-6033
DOI:10.1002/btpr.2901