Processos biocatalíticos utilizando o complexo enzimático dos rizomas de Ipomoea batatas (batata-doce)

Abstract

Ipomoea batatas specie, belongs to the family Convolvulaceae and popularly known as sweet potato, potato, camote, boniato, apichu and kumara is a tuberous plant of long leaves and stems that reach up to 3 meters long been cultivated throughout Brazil due to its wide adaptability. Several studies in the literature involving the isolation of substances from sweet potato (BD) described the presence of compounds with biological and pharmacological activities in its composition, highlighting the coumarins esculetin, umbelliferone and scopoletin with anticoagulant properties and inhibitory replication HIV. In addition to these, are also reported the presence of anthocyanins, chlorogenic acids, among others. The use of BD as enzyme complex biological catalyst is also described in the literature was observed a direct correlation product obtained with the medium wherein the reaction occurs in the bioreduction of prochiral ketones. This relationship that sparked interest in the study of the species as biocatalyst in organic reactions, main objective of the present work. Initially, we evaluated the ability of biocatalytic BD and the influence of factors such as the amount of biocatalyst, amount of substrate, co-solvent, buffer means and the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in reactions of reduction of acetophenone first obtaining an excess the alcohols (R)-1-phenylethanol in reactions in aqueous buffer with or bioconversion range from 3.5 to 98.3% enantiomeric excess (ee) between 21.2 to 80.0% and inversion of configuration to yield (S)-1-phenylethanol as the major product in reactions with co-solvent or PVP conversion values ranging from 1.0 to 82.8% ee and from 11.6 to 96.7%. The evaluations were extended to the use of derivatives substrate 1 where there was a trend reversal in this configuration major product in reactions where only water was used and reactions among which PVP was added, the sharper the compounds p- substituted, then the msubstituted and o-substituted. Subsequently, they were used as substrates aliphatic ketones, aldehydes and nitro evaluating the influence of the presence of PVP in the reaction with conversions ranging from 3.0 to 100.0%. The hydrolysis of esters by BD biocatalisadas with and without PVP were also performed. The values of conversion and enantiomeric excess of the pro-chiral products were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GC-MS).