Microbial reduction of monocarboxylic and dicarboxylic acids in the presence of carbon monoxide and/or formates plus mediators

US4851344A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Helmut Simon · Göppingen, DE
• Herbert Lebertz · Freising, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 26, 1988
• Grant date: Jul 25, 1989
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E50/10
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Monocarboxylic and dicarboxylic acids of up to 10 carbon atoms, which may also contain double bonds and be substituted by halogen, phenyl or hydroxyl, are microbially reduced to the corresponding alcohols by performing the reduction with carbon monoxide and/or a formate in the presence of a mediator.