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| Author(s): |
Bianca Maira Teixeira Ayres
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Química |
| Defense date: | 2014-11-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Telma Teixeira Franco;
Julio César dos Santos;
Luuk Antonius Maria van der Wielen;
Ulf Friedrich Schuchardt;
Fernando Rodrigo Frederico
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| Advisor: | Gustavo Paim Valença; Telma Teixeira Franco |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this work was the biocatalysis of the acrylates of carbohydrates, from glucose up to maltodextrins. Maltodetrins (MD) are starch hydrolysates consisting of ?-D-glucose units bounded by ?-1,4 glycosidic linkages (primarily). Analysis of standard or industrial samples of MD in gel permeation chromatography presented a huge molecular mass distribution, from 1 to 100 units of glucose (G1). An ethanol fractionation step for selection of narrow range of the chains of glucose was unsuccesfull because the precipitate and supernatant were contamined with small molecules. The main limitant factors for enzymatic esterification of MD with acrylic acid are the catering saccharidic substrate (increase its solubility) to the lipase, to avoid (or overcome) inhibition from acrylic acid, and to allow enzymatic activity, which depends on the characteristics of the immobilized lipases (type of support, source of the lipase) and solvent of the system. Commercial immobilized lipases from Thermomyces lanuginosa (TL IM) or Candida antarctica (Novozyme 435) and, lipases from T.lanuginosa, C.antarctica, Candida rugosa and Rizomucor miehei immobilized by absorption in Accurel EP-100 were investigated in a screening of organic solvents. Dioxane and Novozyme 435 were the best association for higher conversion of G1 and G2. TL IM in tert-butanol (TBA) was the only system, which produced acrylates of maltodextrina on TLC plates. The solubility of the MD is complete in water, pyridine and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), about 1 kg L-1, but lipases are not active for esterification in these solvents. The water is a byproduct of the esterification and shifts the reversible reaction toward the hydrolysis. The partial addition of the co- solvent DMSO to the reactional system containing 2-methyl-2-butanol (2M2B) or TBA was tested for partial solubilization of the maltodextrin. The systems with only one organic solvent were more efficient than the presence of DMSO. The highest area in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for production of the MD acrylates was achieved with 2M2B as adjuvant. Analogically, the acrylation of n-butanol by Novozyme 435 was studied to better understand the enzymatic acrylation, since the quantification of the product butyl acrylate is possible by gas chromatography (GC). Solvent systems (toluene, cyclohexane, 2M2B, TBA and partial volume of DMSO) were studied to determine the effect of the solvents on the specific enzymatic activity. It was found that cyclohexane and toluene achieved 3-fold the enzyme activity that in TBA and 2M2B. However, n-butanol and MD as substrate are mainly differentiated regards to the solubility in non polar organic solvents which are more suitable for lipase activity. A side reaction of acrylation of the organic solvent, TBA or 2M2B, was verified by GC-Mass Spectrometry. Meanwhile, the enzymatic esterification of maltose, maltotriose and maltodextrin with acrylic acid by Novozyme 435 in 2M2B were analyzed in electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry (MS) associated to HPLC, which confirmed the presence of mono- until tetra- acrylated hydroxyls for maltose (G2) and maltotriose (G3). A two-step process of biocatalysis for producton of sugar acrylates was investigated. G1 or G2 was acylated with either vinyl propionate or ethyl acrylate by Novozyme 435 in dioxane. Then, the elongation of the chain by cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase) from Bacillus macerans with ?-cyclodextrin as acyl donor provided maltoligosaccharides esters. CGTase from Bacillus macerans converted these products from the first step and ?-cyclodextrin into oligosaccharide esters. HPLC coupled to charged aerosol detector and amperometric exchange and thin layer chromatography were used to identify the oligosaccharide esters. About 75% or 55% of ?-cyclodextrin was converted under consumption of 40.5% of glucose propionate (G1P) or 86.3% of maltose propionate (G2P) by CGTase activity. The composition of the final solution was since 2 to 14 glucose units with one acrylate or propionate moiety (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/18497-3 - Enzymatic Esterification for production simple and multiple acrylates of maltodextrins |
| Grantee: | Bianca Maíra Teixeira Ayres |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |