Bacterial Reduction of 9-Fluorenone to 9-Hydroxyfluorene

Tomomi INOUE; Tetsuya TASAKA; Reiji MARUYAMA; Yasuteru SUMITA; Shin ONO; Masami INOUE

doi:10.1271/bbb.62.814

Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry

Online ISSN : 1347-6947
Print ISSN : 0916-8451

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Bacterial Reduction of 9-Fluorenone to 9-Hydroxyfluorene

Tomomi INOUE, Tetsuya TASAKA, Reiji MARUYAMA, Yasuteru SUMITA, Shin ONO, Masami INOUE

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Keywords: reduction, Bacillus brevis, 9-fluorenone, 9-hydroxyfluorene, dialysis

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1998 Volume 62 Issue 4 Pages 814-815

DOI https://doi.org/10.1271/bbb.62.814

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Abstract

A wild type of the Gram-positive bacterium, Bacillus brevis, reduced polycyclic aromatic compounds such as 9-fluorenone to the corresponding alcohol, 9-hydroxyfluorene, at 30°C in an anaerobic atmosphere in a 97% yield by extraction with an organic solvent. The products could be also continuously isolated by dialysis from a flowing reaction solution.

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