An efficient procedure for the production of fatty acid hydroperoxides from hydrolyzed flax seed oil and soybean lipoxygenase.

Production of 13-linolenic acid hydroperoxides Tom hydrolyzed flax seed oil using
lipoxygenase extracted Tom soybean seedshas been achieved with high transformation yields
(60 g.l.-1h-1) with a high purity (94 % of i3-isomers) in a 10 liter reactor without addition of
any solvent or surfactant. The reaction limiting factor is, probably, the accessibility of the
substrate to the enzyme.