“…Lipases are naturally designed to act at an oil‐water interface, which makes them very compatible with organic solvents (Gotor‐Fernández, Brieva, & Gotor, ; Hari Krishna & Karanth, ; Hasan, Shah, & Hameed, ; Jaeger & Eggert, ; Madeira Lau, Van Rantwijk, Seddon, & Sheldon, ; Reetz, ). These enzymes may act in different reaction media, recognize a wide variety of substrates and catalyze a large number of reactions, such as hydrolysis (Charusheela & Arvind, ; Fernandez‐Lorente et al, ; Liu et al, ; Vaysse, Ly, Moulin, & Dubreucq, ), esterifications (Gandhi et al, ; Kontogianni, Skouridou, Sereti, Stamatis, & Kolisis, ; Vaysse et al, ; Zaidi et al, ), alcoholysis (Deng, Xu, Haraldsson, Tan, & Wang, ; Shimada, Watanabe, Sugihara, & Tominaga, ; Soumanou & Bornscheuer, ; Vaysse et al, ), ammoniolysis (De Zoete, Kock‐van Dalen, Van Rantwijk, & Sheldon, ; Gotor‐Fernandez & Gotor, ; Levinson, Kuo, & Kurtzman, ; López‐Serrano, Wegman, van Rantwijk, & Sheldon, ), aminolysis (Badjic, Kadnikova, & Kostic, ; Gotor‐Fernandez & Gotor, ; Torre, Gotor‐Fernández, Alfonso, García‐Alles, & Gotor, ), transesterification (Katiyar & Ali, , ), interesterification (Abigor et al, ; Yang, Fruekilde, & Xu, ; Zhang et al, ) and others.…”