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US 5,952,205 AGranted
Process for processing sucrose into glucose and fructose
AssigneeNeose Technologies, Inc.
InventorsSteven J. Catani, Stephen A. Roth, Edward J. McGuire, Juan L. Navia
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process of preparing commercial quantities of glucose and/or fructose from sucrose, a process of preparing commercial quantities of glucose and a polyfructan from sucrose, a reactor for practicing same, a process of preparing commercial quantities of fructose and a polyglucan from sucrose and a reactor for practicing same.
Claims12
A process for preparing glucose from sucrose comprising:
- i) contacting sucrose with a fructosyltransferase to produce glucose;
- and
- ii) isolating glucose therefrom
- wherein said reaction product further comprises a polyfructan and said process further comprises isolating said polyfructan.
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A process for preparing commercial quantities of glucose and a polyfructan of comprising:
- i) contacting sucrose with a fructosyltransferase to produce a reaction product comprising glucose and a polyfructan;
- and
- ii) isolating glucose and said polyfructan.
A process of preparing glucose and fructose from sucrose comprising:
- i) contacting sucrose with a fructosyltransferase to produce glucose;
- ii) contacting sucrose with a glucosyltransferase to produce fructose;
- iii) isolating glucose and fructose.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.