Alcohol Manufacture from Potatoes (V)

Practical chiral alcohol manufacture using ketoreductases.

Over the past two years the application of ketoreductases in the commercial synthesis of chiral alcohols has undergone a revolution. Biocatalysts are now often the preferred catalyst for the synthesis of chiral alcohols via ketone reduction and are displacing reagents and chemocatalysts that only recently were considered break-through process solutions themselves. Tailor-made enzymes can now be...

Isopropyl Alcohol Manufacture by the Strong-acid Process

Isopropyl alcohol has been called the first petrochemical (IARC, 1992). It can be prepared via three different methods: indirect hydration of propylene, direct hydration of propylene, and catalytic hydrogenation of acetone. Indirect hydration, also called the sulfuric-acid process, was the only method used to produce isopropanol worldwide until the first commercial direct-hydration process was ...

Beyond "Couch Potatoes": From Consumers to Designers

The fundamental challenge for human-computer interaction (HCI) is to invent and design a culture in which humans can express themselves and engage in personally meaningful activities. Cultures are substantially defined by their media and tools for thinking, working, learning, and collaborating. New media change (1) the structure and contents of our interests, (2) the nature of our cognitive and...

Immunological similarities of proteinase inhibitors from potatoes.

Proteinase inhibitors, purified independently from Japanese, United States, and German potato varieties, and having different physicochemical and inhibitory properties, are shown to be immunochemically similar. These results indicate that the heterogeneity found among proteinase inhibitors from potato tubers is apparently due both to intervarietal, as well as intravarietal, variations in isoinh...

Manufacture of Vaccine Lymph from Sheep