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An improved procedure for chemospecific acylation of 2-mercaptoethanol by lipase-catalyzed transesterification

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Various O-acyl derivatives of 2-mercaptoethanol have been obtained enzymatically by lipase-catalyzed chemospecific esterification reactions of the substrate and several aliphatic carboxylic acid ethyl esters.

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  1. Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón 2, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Alicia Baldessari, Luis E. Iglesias & Eduardo G. Gros

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Baldessari, A., Iglesias, L.E. & Gros, E.G. An improved procedure for chemospecific acylation of 2-mercaptoethanol by lipase-catalyzed transesterification. Biotechnol Lett 16, 479–484 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01023329

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