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RE: Pig Liver Esterase: A powerful little Friend of Biochemists

in #steemstem7 years ago

Nice transformation, I'm having trouble thinking of another way to cleave the ethyl ester in one step.

PLE is also commonly used to react with only one enantiomer in order to allow for purification of racemic mixtures right?

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Yess it's possible to use these enzymes for (kinetic) enantiomeric resolution.
GL with your lab-problem. ;-)