Enzymic process for preparing aliphatic S-cyanohydrins

US5714356A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• DSM Chemie Linz GmbH · AT

Inventors

• Herfried Griengl · Graz, AT
• Nongyuan Shi · Hanau, DE
• Ulrike Pichler · Graz, AT
• Norbert Klempier · Graz, AT
• Peter Pochlauer · Dordrecht, NL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 19, 1995
• Grant date: Feb 3, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 19, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12P13/004
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Process for preparing (S)-cyanohydrins by reacting aldehydes or asymmetrical, aliphatic ketones with hydrocyanic acid in the presence of the (S)-oxynitrilase from Hevea brasiliensis at temperatures of up to at most 10.degree. C.