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US 4,837,150 AGranted
Oxidation processes
AssigneeNational Research Development Corporation
InventorsHoward Dalton, John Colby, David I. Stirling
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Abstract
A process in which a culture of a methane-oxidizing bacterium or an extract thereof containing a methane oxidizing system is used as oxidizing agent for the oxidation of a higher short-chain alkane, an alkene or a cyclic organic compound.
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A process for oxidizing an alkene which comprises contacting said alkene with a culture of methane-oxidizing C.sub.1 -obligate bacteria not capable of growth on said alkene, or an extract of said culture which contains a methane-oxidizing enzyme system, under conditions of medium, temperature and time required for oxidation of said alkene.
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