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Chapter 5 126Three different solvents were considered: MTBE, THF <strong>and</strong> acetone.THF was found to be <strong>the</strong> worst solvent; it was impossible to follow <strong>the</strong>reaction by GC. Solvents were used <strong>in</strong> different concentrations asreported <strong>in</strong> table 5.9. For clarity <strong>and</strong> direct comparison <strong>the</strong> resultsobta<strong>in</strong>ed without cosolvent are <strong>in</strong>corporated <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> same table.Entry Substrate R Cosolvent Product C% Time h e.e E1 (±)-60b 4Me - (S)-60b 60.7 144 >99.5 352 4Me - (R)-58b 64.83 (±)-60b 4Me MTBE 10% (S)-60b 38.1 47 47.3 124 4Me (R)-58b 77.05 (±)-60b 4Me MTBE 25% (S)-60b 41.2 40 38.4 56 4Me (R)-58b 54.77 (±)-60b 4Me Acetone5% (S)-60b 48.2 76 79.5 318 4Me (R)-58b 85.49 (±)-60e 4CN - (S)-60e 61.8 52 86.6 610 4CN (R)-58e 41.211 (±)-60e 4CN MTBE 10% (S)-60e 67.7 36 86.6 612 4CN (R)-58e 41.213 (±)-60e 4CN MTBE 30% (S)-60e 66.0 36 86.8 714 4CN (R)-58e 44.7Table 5.9: Effect <strong>of</strong> cosolvent <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> enzymatic hydrolyses <strong>of</strong> (±)-60e.All obta<strong>in</strong>ed results were really unsatisfactory. The addition <strong>of</strong>MTBE as a cosolvent dramatically decreased <strong>the</strong> enantioselectivity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>enzymatic process for (±)-60b. 10% <strong>of</strong> MTBE gave E = 12 <strong>and</strong> 25% <strong>of</strong>MTBE gave E value = 5 (entries 3-5; table 5.9). Acetone (entry 7; table5.9) was found to be a much better cosolvent because it did not decrease<strong>the</strong> enantioselectivity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> process as compared with <strong>the</strong> experimentus<strong>in</strong>g no cosolvent (entry1; table5.9).Its presence did <strong>in</strong> no way improve <strong>the</strong> process. The addition <strong>of</strong>MTBE with 10% <strong>and</strong> 30% to <strong>the</strong> reaction mixture conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g (±)-60e(entries 11,13; table5.9) did not lead to any change <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> selectivity ascompared with <strong>the</strong> experiment without cosolvent (entry 9; table 5.9). Itled to a homogeneous trend <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> reaction <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> enzymatic process wasmuch more cont<strong>in</strong>uous. The hypo<strong>the</strong>sis that <strong>the</strong> solid state <strong>of</strong> (±)-60b,ewas responsible for <strong>the</strong> low selectivity was not supported by <strong>the</strong>se

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