Aggarwal_2014_Bioorg.Chem_53_83

It has been demonstrated that Lipozyme TL IM (Thermomyces lanuginosus lipase immobilised on silica) can selectively deacylate the ester function involving the C-5' hydroxyl group of alpha-anomers over the other acyl functions of anomeric mixture of peracylated O-aryl alpha,beta-D-ribofuranoside. The analysis of results of biocatalytic deacylation reaction revealed that the reaction time decreases with the increase in the acyl chain length from C1 to C4. The unique selectivity of Lipozyme TL IM has been harnessed for the separation of anomeric mixture of peracylated O-aryl alpha,beta-D-ribofuranosides, The lipase mediated selective deacylation methodology has been used for the synthesis of O-aryl alpha-D-ribofuranosides and O-aryl beta-D-ribofuranosides in pure forms, which can be used as chromogenic substrate for the detection of pathogenic microbial parasites containing glycosidases.