Prokaryotes modified stably on the genome are of great importance for production of fine and commodity chemicals.
p-Hydroxybenzoate, protocatechuate, and catechol represent fine and/or commodity chemicals useful as antioxidants and building-block molecules.
The number of industrial processes for the synthesis of fine and commodity chemicals, pharmaceutical and agrochemical intermediates and drug substances utilizing biological catalysts continues to grow.
Sometimes it feels like these unspoken rules exist in techno or electronic music culture, but that pales heavily when compared to the circle-jerking that goes on with the extremely privileged in contemporary fine art commodity culture.
Differentiating companies as Molecule Suppliers and Product Formulators or Problem Solvers and identifying their fields of activity as commodities, fine and specialty chemicals, and life sciences provides a useful overview.
This review highlights key catalytic discoveries and the main industrial catalytic processes over the last 300 years that involved commodities, fine chemicals, petrochemicals, petroleum transformation for fuels and energy supply, emission control, and so forth.
Although cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin transformation has been extensively studied [7] [9], less attention has been given to other extracted compounds, which also constitute important feedstocks for commodities and fine chemicals [10].
Such systems indeed are under development and are mostly referred to as solar biofuel production systems, although much more than only liquid fuel (carriers) can be produced: for many chemical commodities and fine chemicals proof of principle for their production, based on the same approach, meanwhile has also been provided [ 4– 7].
He says the current demand for systems entrepreneurs is in "bioprocessing and metabolic engineering to make commodity and fine chemicals, and biopolymers".
The application of metagenomics has allowed the development of commodity and fine chemicals, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals where the benefit of enzyme-catalyzed chiral synthesis is increasingly recognized.
