{"id":14853,"date":"2009-10-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20091027-06n"},"modified":"2009-10-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T22:00:00","slug":"pathway-to-synthetic-isobutene-from-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/pathway-to-synthetic-isobutene-from-biomass\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathway to Synthetic Isobutene from Biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Global Bioenergies, located on the Genopole campus close to Paris, has announced the proof-of-concept of a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene, a key building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Macha Anissimova, Head of Research, said &#8220;We are very proud to have reached this key milestone in advance on schedule. We have benefited from the assistance of Genoscope and of the analytical chemistry platform of Evry-Val d\u2019Essonne University. The bioproduction of a gaseous hydrocarbon will make it possible to obtain pure products at high yield and low cost&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>According to Prof. Dieter S\u00f6ll (Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA), &#8220;The data on isobutene formation presented by Global Bioenergies are convincing, and I am now impatient to see the process optimized and scaled up.&#8221; &#8220;Development of such an artificial metabolic pathway represents a signal accomplishment with enormous implications. Standard technologies for enzyme and metabolic engineering can now be applied to transform this proof of concept into a viable industrial process&#8221;, added Prof. Donald Hilvert (ETH Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland). <\/p>\n<p>Marc Delcourt, cofounder and CEO of the company concludes: &#8220;We are now focusing on industrializing the process, which will be financed through a second round currently in preparation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Global Bioenergies, located on the Genopole campus close to Paris, has announced the proof-of-concept of a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene, a key building<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[1534],"class_list":["post-14853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-global-bioenergies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14853"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}