D. Ohagan et Na. Zaidi, POLYMERIZATION OF 10-HYDROXYDECANOIC ACID WITH THE LIPASE FROM CANDIDA-CYLINDRACEA, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (20), 1993, pp. 2389-2390
A polyester of 10-hydroxydecanoic acid 1 has been efficiently prepared
by the incubation of the monomer in hexane and 3 angstrom molecular s
ieves at 55-degrees-C with the lipase from Candida cylindracea. The po
lymer is on average a 52mer(M(n)BAR = 9346 and M(r) = 12 065) and has
a polydispersity of 1.29.