3. Results and discussion3.1. Quali

3. Results and discussion

3.1. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of two methods in preparing 2-phenethyl fatty acid esters We compared both methods for generating 2-phenethyl esters and determined the conversion of the reactions (Table 1).
The conversion of the enzymatic reaction was comparable or even better than that of the chemical method. This may be explained by product loss in the purification steps in the chemical processing which may reduce the yields of the desired compound.

Chemical synthesis has other limitations, such as the need to remove impurities and by-products from the final product, and harsh reaction conditions