CO2 can be used as feedstock in the synthesis of fuels, chemicals and polymers.
Fumaric acid is an important specialty chemical with wide industrial applications ranging from its use as feedstock for the synthesis of polymeric resins to acidulant in foods and pharmaceuticals.
Lignocellulosic biomass, which comprises cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, is an excellent alternative to fossil feedstock for the synthesis of biochemical and biofuels.
In this study, an ATP-hydrolysis based driving force module was engineered into cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 to produce 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB), a valuable chemical feedstock for the synthesis of biodegradable plastics and antibiotics.
In the last 20 years, much attention has been paid to the synthesis of higher alcohols (HAS) from syngas because alcohols are being considered as a potential alternative synthetic fuels for automotive applications and as feedstock for the synthesis of a variety of industrial chemicals and polymers [1, 2, 3, 4].
Molecular hydrogen (H2) is an important feedstock for the synthesis of chemicals and fertilizers, and it also has great potential as a clean carrier of energy for renewable fuel technologies.
Additionally, it is a chemical used as feedstock for the synthesis of a wide range of other chemicals with several industrial applications (e.g. food industry).
The present review focuses on recent progress in the microbial conversion of biomass into bio-based polymers, in which fermentative products from renewable feedstocks serve as biomonomers for the synthesis of bio-based polymers.
Moreover, erythritol recently has been proposed for use as a feedstock (in place of petrochemicals) for the synthesis of bio-plastics (Amada et al. 2012).
In particular, the production of biomonomers from inedible lignocellulosic feedstocks by metabolically engineered microorganisms and the synthesis of bio-based engineered plastics from the biological resources are discussed.
