Abstracto
- The hydrolysis of a series of triacylglycerol analogs catalysed by castor-bean acid lipase was studied at 30° and pH 4.20. Iso-propyl esters underwent lipolysis, thus refuting the mechanistic proposition that hydrolysis at C-2 in triacylglycerols occurs via a slow transfer of the acyl moiety from C-2 to either C-1 or C-3, followed by enzymic hydrolytic action.