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Novozym 40086 as a novel biocatalyst to improve benzyl cinnamate synthesis Cite this: RSC Adv.,2018,8,37184 Shangde Sun * and Liya Tian
Benzyl cinnamate is one of the derivatives of cinnamic acid, which can be used as the main constituent in perfume, UV filters and medicines. In this work, several commercial immobilized lipases (Novozym 40086, Novozym 435 and Lipozyme TLIM) and free lipases (lipase A and B from Candida sp., and lipozyme from Thermomyces linuginosous) were used as catalysts for benzyl cinnamate preparation by the esterification of benzyl alcohol with cinnamic acid. The effect of various esterification parameters (reaction time, reaction temperature, lipase concentration and substrate ratio) on benzyl cinnamate yield were also optimized and evaluated using response surface methodology (RSM). Among all tested lipases, Novozym 40086, as a new commercial immobilized lipase from Rhizomucor miehei immobilized on acrylic resin beads, showed the best activity for the esterification. Esterification parameters were optimized as follows: reaction temperature 46.3 C, substrate molar ratio 1 : 3 (cinnamic acid/benzyl Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. alcohol), Novozym 40086 concentration 23.1 mg mL 1, reaction time 11.3 h, and maximum benzyl cinnamate yield (96.2 1.4%) were achieved under the optimal conditions. Novozym 40086 can be Received 11th October 2018 reused 9 times without significant decrease in benzyl cinnamate yield (90.1% yield after nine times). The Accepted 31st October 2018 activation energy for the Novozym 40086-catalyzed esterification was 14.96 0.25 kJ mol 1. These DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08433e results showed that Novozym 40086 was a novel and efficient biocatalyst for the esterification, which rsc.li/rsc-advances can be used as a good alternative for benzyl cinnamate production.
biocatalysts, the carrier features can affect the activity and This article is licensed under a 1. Introduction stability of immobilized enzymes.17–21 Because the carrier of Cinnamic acid (3-phenylacrylic acid) is one kind of phenolic Lipozyme TLIM was silica gel, which can be easily destroyed acid widely present in plants, which can be used in avoring during the mechanical mixing process and in the presence of 1–3 Open Access Article. Published on 05 November 2018. Downloaded 11/23/2019 9:56:45 PM. materials and skin care products. However, the high melting by-product water formed in the esteri cation, the activity of point (133 C) and poor solubility of cinnamic acid limit its Lipozyme TLIM decreased to 63% aer reuse 3 times. There- application. Benzyl cinnamate (melting point 34.5 C), one of fore, more efficient biocatalysts, especially for the immobilized the derivatives of cinnamic acid, was oen used as a avoring enzymes, have been more popular alternative for benzyl cin- agent and antioxidant in the food, cosmetic and medicine namate preparation. industries.4–11 Benzyl cinnamate has been approved as a avor In this study, for enhancing benzyl cinnamate synthesis, by the FDA and included by the Council of Europe in the list of several commercial immobilized lipases (Novozym 40086, substances graded A.4 Therefore, the preparation of benzyl Novozym 435, Lipozyme TLIM) and free lipases (lipase A and B cinnamate has been very interesting.10,12 from Candida sp., and lipozyme from Thermomyces linugino- Recently, benzyl cinnamate has been prepared by the ester- sous) were used to catalyze the esterication. Effects of esteri- ication of benzyl alcohol with cinnamic acid using enzymes or cation parameters (reaction time, temperature, lipase chemicals as catalysts. Compared with chemical catalysts, due concentration and substrate ratio) on the reaction were evalu- to the thermal instability of cinnamic acid, biocatalysts have ated and optimized by RSM, and the lipase reusability was also attracted more attention for the esterication.13–16 For example, investigated. HPLC-UV and HPLC-ESI-MS were used to analyze in the reports of Wang et al. and Zhang et al.,10,12 lipozyme TLIM benzyl cinnamate synthesis. Thermodynamic and reaction was used as a biocatalyst to prepare benzyl cinnamate, and kinetic were investigated. a high yield (97%) can be obtained. For the immobilized 2. Materials and methods Lipid Technology and Engineering, School of Food Science and Engineering, Henan 2.1. Materials University of Technology, Lianhua Road 100, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan Province, P. R. China. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; Fax: +86- Cinnamic acid was provided from Nanjing Zelang Chemical 371-67758022; Tel: +86-371-67758022 Co., Ltd. (Nanjing China). Benzyl alcohol was purchased from
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Maikelin Biochem. Technol. Co., Ltd. (Shanghai China). Three 2.4. Experimental design for response surface methodology commercial immobilized lipases (Novozym 40086, Novozym A Box–Behnken design with 3 levels and 3 factors was used to 435 and Lipozyme TLIM) and three free lipases (lipase A and B evaluate the interaction of factors on the esterication (Table 1). from Candida sp., and lipozyme from Thermomyces linugino- Three factors and 3 levels were set as esterication temperature sous) were purchased from Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, (20 C, 40 C and 60 C), esterication time (3 h, 9 h and 15 h), Denmark). 1 1 and lipase concentration (5 mg mL ,20mgmL and 35 mg mL 1), respectively.
2.2. Enzymatic esteri cation and immobilized enzyme 2.5. Statistical analysis reusability From the RSM design, the mathematical relationship between The esteri cation of cinnamic acid (0.1 mmol) with benzyl esterication parameters with benzyl cinnamate yield was as alcohol (0.3 mmol) was carried out in 10 mL isooctane at follow: 150 rpm and 40 C. The esterication was initialized when X3 X3 X2 X3 lipase was added. Samples (20 mL) were taken out for analysis at 2 Y ¼ b0 þ biΧi þ biiXi þ bij ΧiΧj specic time intervals. i¼1 i¼1 i¼1 j¼iþ1 To investigate the reusability of lipase, aer the esterication where Y is benzyl cinnamate yield, X and X represent reaction nished, Novozym 40086 was rstly ltered, and then washed i j parameters, and b , b , b , and b are the constants. using isooctane for 6 times. Finally, the lipase was dried for the 0 i ii ij next use. 3. Results and discussion 3.1. Biocatalyst screening
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. 2.3. Analysis Fig. 1 shows that, when the three free lipases were used as Products were analyzed using HPLC with C18 column (250 mm biocatalysts for the esterication, the low benzyl cinnamate 4.6 mm, 5 mm), which was eluted with solvent 10% A (0.5%, v/ yields were obtained, which were attributed to the aggregation v, glacial acetic acid/water) and solvent 90% B (methanol) at 0.5 of free liquid lipases in isooctane system. Fig. 1 also shows that, mL min 1 at 35 C and 280 nm. at 24 h, the maximum benzyl cinnamate yield (92.3 2.3%) was In order to identify the product, the major ion ([M + Na]+)of obtained using Novozym 40086 as biocatalyst, which was 1.7 benzyl cinnamate detected by HPLC-ESI-MS was 261 times that (55.1 1.6%) of Lipozyme TLIM and 1.8 times that (required M 238). The capillary, collision and cone voltages were (51.3 2.3%) of free lipozyme from Thermomyces linuginosous. 3.0 kV, 5 V and 30 V, respectively. The ion source and des- In the previous reports,10,12 immobilized lipase Lipozyme TLIM This article is licensed under a olvation temperatures were 80 C and 150 C, respectively. The was used to prepare benzyl cinnamate. However, the immobi- ows of cone desolvation gas, desolvation gas and injection lized carrier of Lipozyme TLIM was silica gel, which can be were 40 L h 1, 350 L h 1 and 20 mL min 1, respectively. easily destroyed during the mixing process by mechanical Open Access Article. Published on 05 November 2018. Downloaded 11/23/2019 9:56:45 PM.
Table 1 RSM design and results of Novozym 40086-catalyzed the esterification for benzyl cinnamate preparation
Reaction time Novozym 40086 Temperature Benzyl cinnamate Treatment no.a A (h) concentration B (mg mL 1) C( C) yield (%)
1 9 (0) 20 (0) 40 (0) 89.2 1.20 2 9 (0) 20 (0) 40 (0) 91.0 0.82 33( 1) 20 (0) 20 ( 1) 24.1 1.61 43( 1) 35 (1) 40 (0) 64.3 0.60 5 15 (1) 35 (1) 40(0) 91.4 0.42 6 15 (1) 20 (0) 20(-1) 88.6 1.12 73( 1) 5 ( 1) 40 (0) 67.9 0.63 8 9 (0) 20 (0) 40 (0) 92.0 1.56 9 9 (0) 35 (1) 60 (1) 92.3 0.61 10 15 (1) 5 ( 1) 40 (0) 74.0 0.31 11 3 ( 1) 20 (0) 60 (1) 94.2 1.46 12 9 (0) 5 ( 1) 20 ( 1) 28.0 1.62 13 9 (0) 5 ( 1) 60 (1) 93.0 1.19 14 15 (1) 20 (0) 60 (1) 90.8 2.19 15 9 (0) 20 (0) 40 (0) 88.8 0.52 16 9 (0) 35 (1) 20 ( 1) 75.2 1.78 17 9 (0) 20 (0) 40 (0) 85.8 1.19 a Experiment numbers randomly.
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agitation and the presence of water formed in the esterica- From Fig. 2, we can found that the maximum benzyl cinna- tion.22,23 These resulted in the decrease of benzyl cinnamate mate yield (97.1 1.38%) was successfully achieved using yield to 63% at three times reuse of Lipozyme TLIM.10,12 Novo- isooctane as solvent, which was attributed the high boiling zym 40086 was a new commercial lipase from Rhizomucor miehei point (99 C) and log P (4.5) of isooctane. However, for the polar immobilized on acrylic resin beads, which was very stable and chloroform (log P, 2.0), the lowest benzyl cinnamate yield (less easily separated from the esterication, and the maximum than 70%) was obtained, which was due to the fact that the benzyl cinnamate yield (92.3 2.3%) was achieved using essential water on the surface of immobilized enzyme was Novozym 40086 as biocatalyst. Therefore, compared with other deprived by the polar chloroform. Similar immobilized enzyme commercial immobilized lipases and free lipases used in the activity decreased in polar solvents can also be found in many work, Novozym 40086 was the best alternative for the esteri- reactions.30–32 cation, which was ascribed to the interfacial activation of the immobilized hydrophobic carrier (acrylic resin beads) and 3.3. Effect of substrate ratio stabilization of open form of lipase by the immobilization. Similar effect of hydrophobic supports on the immobilized Varying substrate ratio from 1 : 1 (cinnamic acid to benzyl 1 enzyme activity can also be found in other lipases.19,20,24,25 alcohol, mol mol ) to 1 : 3, benzyl cinnamate yield increased from 83.2 2.19% to 93.5 1.29% at 24 h (Fig. 3). However, with the substrate molar ratio ranging from 1 : 4 to 1 : 6, the 3.2. Selection of solvent yield of benzyl cinnamate decreased from 87.4 2.06% to 86.3 Fig. 2 shows that, among the tested ve solvents, high benzyl 2.0% at 24 h, which were attributed to the decrease of the cinnamate yields can be obtained using isooctane (log P, 4.5), concentration of cinnamic acid and more dead end enzyme- heptane (log P, 4.0) and hexane (log P, 3.5) as solvents. These benzyl alcohol complex formation with the increase of benzyl were attributed to the presence of non-polar solvents with high alcohol concentration. These indicated that, at high benzyl log P (>3.0). Similar the enhancement of immobilized enzyme alcohol concentration, the inhibition of benzyl alcohol on the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. activity in non-polar solvent can also be found in other reac- immobilized lipase-catalyzed esterication was signicant. 26–29 tions. However, when heptane, hexane and toluene were Similar inhibition of alcohol on lipase activity can also be found used as solvents, the maximum benzyl cinnamate yields were in another reaction.33–36 obtained at 12 h, and with further increase of reaction time to 24 h, benzyl cinnamate yield decreased, which may be attrib- ff uted to the dilution of cinnamic acid with reaction progress and 3.4. E ect of Novozym 40086 concentration more water into the reaction system from the atmosphere. According to the previous methods,34,37,38 the initial reaction Similar effect can also be found in other enzymatic rates, dened as the initial benzyl cinnamate yield (#15.0% esterication.22,23 benzyl cinnamate yield) per unit time (V , mol (L 1 min 1)), This article is licensed under a 0 Open Access Article. Published on 05 November 2018. Downloaded 11/23/2019 9:56:45 PM.
Fig. 1 Effect of different lipases on benzyl cinnamate yield. Reaction conditions: substrate ratio 1 : 3 (cinnamic acid to benzyl alcohol, mol mol 1), lipase concentration 30 mg mL 1 at 150 rpm and 40 C in isooctane.
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