| abstract |
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of fatty acid esters of alkylglycosides (III), by transesterification of an alkylglycoside (I) with an alkylester of a fatty acid (II), in the presence of the alkylglycoside ester (III) resulting from the transesterification of (I) with (II). The reaction is enzymatically catalysed. The relative amounts of the compounds (I), (II) and (III) at the start of the reaction are chosen such that the reaction is carried out in the homogeneous phase region of the ternary system of compounds (I), (II) and (III). |