Schuchert-Shi_2010_Chirality_22_331

The progress of the enzymatic hydrolysis of racemic mixtures of the enantiomers of the methyl esters of serine and threonine was monitored. This was possible in a reaction vessel of 1.5 mL by direct sampling of volumes in the nanoliter-range directly into an electrophoresis capillary. Contactless conductivity detection was used for quantification as the analytes are not accessible by UV-detection in capillary electrophoresis. Porcine pancreatic lipase and wheat germ lipase both showed a preference for the L-enantiomers of both amino acid esters. The selectivity of the porcine lipase between the two L-esters of the two amino acids was also studied and it was found that the production of L-threonine had priority over L-serine.