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Plastics into Fuel : Gas from Garbage:
Professor Gross's Revolutionary Research Featured in The New York Times.
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Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing of Macromolecules

Cutinase-catalyzed biotransformations (PDF)

Cutinase: a serine esterase

a/b hydrolase fold with central b-sheet
with 5 parallel strands surrounded by 4 a-helices on both sides

Protein engineering (lipase, cutinase, mono-oxgenase (P450). (PDF)

Cultivation of CALB

Temperature 26-28oC
Oxygen baffled flasks
MeOH-conc.
Synthesis of functional bioresorbable polymers for drug delivery (PDF)

Why use Enzymes as catalysts in Polymer
Chemistry?

Avoid protection-deprotection steps deprotection stepsGain improved control over:
Engineering microbial glycolipids with important physical and biological functions. (PDF)
Self-assembly of surfactants and block copolymers
Enzyme Immobilization: surface-protein interactions (PDF)

CATALYST consists of consists of physically physically
immobilized immobilized lipase

Protein loading:
~10% wt of beads
Enzyme-catalyzed ring-opening polymerizations. (PDF)
Ethyl Glucopyranoside (EGP) Initiated Ring-opening
Polymerization of ε-Caprolactone
Fermentative routes to polyamides (PDF)
Bacterial poly-γ-glutamic glutamic acid acid
Produced by Produced by Bacillus Bacillus (anthracis anthracis, subtilis subtilis)
Enzyme-catalyzed condensation polymerizations (PDF)
Transesterification Transesterification in in
Non Non-Aqueous Media
Vinyl monomer synthesis by selective acrylation of natural building blocks (PDF)

 

Condensation Reaction of Ethyl Glucoside
with Acrylic Acid
Incorporate chemically sensitive entities in polymers (e.g. disoloxanes). (PDF)

Dow-corning/Genencor/
Polytechnic Univ. Collaboration

Biocatalytic route to 'sweet silicones'