Innovative pathways for the production of biorenewable chemicals from sugars are generated by streamlining bio- and chemical catalysis. In their ...
Innovative pathways for the production of biorenewable chemicals from sugars are generated by streamlining bio- and chemical catalysis. In their Communication (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201509653), Z. Shao, J.-P. Tessonnier et al. describe the electrocatalytic hydrogenation of muconic acid that had been produced from glucose using metabolically engineered yeast to 3-hexenedioic acid in the presence of all cells and biogenic impurities. The hydrogenation product was employed as a monomer for the synthesis of unsaturated nylon-6,6.
