Abstract
This article discusses the history of enzyme kinetics developed by Michaelis and Menten, and recent work extending kinetics for enzyme‐catalyzed reactions in organic solvents. Based on kinetic studies of the transesterification of vinyl methacrylate with 2‐hydroxyethyl acrylate catalyzed by Candida antarctica lipase B, a new model is proposed that resembles the kinetic model of controlled/living polymerizations governed by dynamic equilibrium of active and dormant species. Experimental data indicates that by judicious selection of reaction conditions steady‐state conditions can be achieved and very clean products with quantitative conversion can be produced. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 63: 266–272, 2017
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