Process for the preparation of vanillin and microorganisms suitable therefor

US6133003A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Haarmann & Reimer Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Rabenhorst · Ankum, DE
• Rudolf Hopp · Holzminden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 23, 1996
• Grant date: Oct 17, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 23, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S435/822
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Using newly discovered microorganisms of the family Pseudonocardiaceae, vanillin may be produced in high yields from ferulic acid. The microorganisms are two strains of Amycolatopsis.