A novel lipase from Aspergillus oryzae catalyzed resolution of (R,S)-ethyl 2-bromoisovalerate.

In this study, a novel lipase M5 derived from Aspergillus oryzae WZ007 was prone to exhibit high hydrolytic activity and stereoselectivity towards racemic substrate (R,S)-ethyl 2-bromoisovalerate. (R)-ethyl 2-bromoisovalerate was obtained by enzymatic resolution, which is the key chiral intermediate for highly efficient enantiomerically fluvalinate. The results showed that the enzymatic reaction was carried out in 120mM racemic substrate for 3 hours, the enantiomeric excess reached 98.6%, the conversion was 51.7%, and E value above 120. Therefore, the novel lipase M5 has the ability to efficiently produce (R)-ethyl 2-bromoisovalerate, which greatly reduces the industrial production cost of the highly efficient counterpart of fluvalinate.