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The industrial potential of microbial nitrile biochemistry
1Biological Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Ciba Foundation Symposium
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Nitrile compounds are manufactured widely by man as well as in Nature. The industrial potential of using the microbial metabolism of nitriles and related compounds for the manufacture of a variety of chemicals has started to be realised. The microbial metabolism of nitrile-using microorganisms can also be harnessed to biodegrade toxic waste effluent streams that contain nitriles and are formed during the chemical synthesis of nitrile compounds.