“…The preparation of the ideal biocatalyst, as well as the reaction itself, should be simple and cheap. In our previous work (Chen and Hanefeld 2013a;Karmee et al 2011b), we screened nine different isolated lipases (CAL-A, CAL-B, CRL, PCL, Amano PSD-I, Pseudomonas stutzeri, Alcaligenes sp., PFL, and pancreatic porcine lipase (PPL)) from commercial sources for the kinetic resolutions of rac-3-hydroxycylopentanone 2a and rac-3-hydroxycyclohexanone 2b and obtained enantiomerically enriched (R)-2a in 21% yield and 83% ee, corresponding to an E-value (enantiomeric ratio) of Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10126-017-9755-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 20, and (R)-2b in 30% yield and 91% ee, corresponding to an Evalue of 32, respectively.…”