Month: September 2022

SYNBIO GREEN CHEMICALS. "Bio-derived chemicals still account for just 1–2% of the overall chemicals market, but that is still expected to amount to about US$1 billion next year."(2011)." " http://lnkd.in/dgNcfcS View in LinkedIn

BIOBASH DEC 17, Portal de L'Angel 36, off Placa de Catalunya, Barcelona" "" "This is our monthly event to get entrepreneurs together to have a few drinks in a relaxed environment, hear a topical talk, and meet fellow entrepreneurs. We started in March, and have 30-50 attendees. Too often, Barcelona entrepreneurs only meet at conferences. Come and enjoy your ecosystem! View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO REVIEW from a contrarian viewpoint.." " http://lnkd.in/d9qzzsz View in LinkedIn

OIL CULTURE IS RELATIVELY NEW. ‘A century ago, petroleum – what we call oil – was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.’ (James Buchan). "We live in a world composed of ancient sunlight. Literally. Look around you – almost every object you see has a history that starts with simple chemical building blocks synthesized from petroleum- fossilized carbon trapped by photosynthesis and buried for millennia."" " http://lnkd.in/dZnKpdV View in LinkedIn

PETROLEUM DERIVATIVES. "Until quite recently petroleum has been regarded solely as source of liquid fuel, burning oils, lubricants, wax and pitch. It occupied much the same position that coal did before the discovery of benzene and its valuable derivatives gave rise to the vast coal-tar industry of to-day. In fact it is possible that history will repeat itself and, before many years have passed, the petroleum byproducts industry compare with the coal-tar industry in importance."" " http://lnkd.in/d92X5KS View in LinkedIn

COAL AND DISCOVERY OF BENZENE, was on super fast-forward from concept to scale up. "In 1845, Charles Mansfield isolated benzene from coal tar. Four years later, Mansfield began the first industrial-scale production of benzene, based on the coal-tar method." This transformed the coal industry. " " http://lnkd.in/dw824fh View in LinkedIn

BENZENE'S SYNTHETIC USES after manufacture from coal tar. Why is benzene useful for chemists? "In both the US and Europe, 50% of benzene is used in the production of ethylbenzene/styrene, 20% is used in the production of cumene, and about 15% of benzene is used in the production of cyclohexane (eventually to nylon)." The benzene ring is also at the heart of nature's biochemistry. " " http://lnkd.in/dw824fh View in LinkedIn

THE DISCOVERY OF COAL TAR BENZENE RING triggered the modern chemicals industry, because suddenly there were new chemical synthetic routes available from this single carbon ring structure. "More than half of the benzene produced each year is converted to ethylbenzene, then to styrene, and then to polystyrene. The next largest use of benzene is in the preparation of phenol. Other uses include the preparation of aniline (for dyes) and dodecylbenzene (for detergents)."" " http://lnkd.in/dz9pK73 View in LinkedIn

BENZENE RINGS ARE DOMINANT IN NATURE. "Next to glucosyl residues, the benzene ring is the most widely distributed unit of chemical structure in nature. The complex aromatic polymer lignin comprises about 25% of the land-based biomass on Earth." There is barely a single metabolic pathway in nature that does not feature a variation of a benzene ring structure." " http://lnkd.in/dYcFHFM View in LinkedIn

GREEN NATURAL CHEMICAL RESOURCES (or feedstocks) need a primary ring structure as a starting building block for the synthesis of useful chemicals. Most useful chemicals today are complex ring constructions. Currently, most industrial and pilot-scale efforts are focused on natural sugars as such a primary source of organic rings derived from sugar cane or plant sources. View in LinkedIn