A kinetic study of biotransformation from valencene to nootkatone in an
oscillatory baffled reactor
Abstract
In this paper we report our kinetic study of an oxidation reaction from
valencene to nootkatone using enzyme in an oscillatory baffled reactor
(OBR). A full kinetic model using the Langmuir-Hinshelwood formalism was
established and applied to the experimental data, allowing reactor
schemes and orders to be confirmed and reaction rate constants to be
extracted. The analysis of reaction rate constants suggests that most of
the reversible reaction steps can be treated as irreversible,
simplifying reaction schemes. The effect of mixing intensity on the
kinetics was also investigated.