https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/Recent content in Platform chemicals on BioeconHugoenhttps://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/arachidonic-acid-microbial-synthesis/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/arachidonic-acid-microbial-synthesis/Why a mould oil displaced animal-derived lipid in infant formula — and why that is a specification argument rather than a cost one.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/bio-acrylic-acid/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/bio-acrylic-acid/Acrylic acid cannot be fermented directly — and both detours run into the same two ceilings: carbon accounting and product toxicity.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-acrylamide-flocculants/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-acrylamide-flocculants/The rare case where biology beat metal catalysis on every axis at once — and why this is biocatalysis, not fermentation.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-butadiene/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-butadiene/A molecule petrochemistry gets almost for free as a by-product — and why that makes the biological route uncompetitive regardless of how good it is.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-butanol-isobutanol-platforms/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-butanol-isobutanol-platforms/The twentieth century’s largest fermentation industry after ethanol, lost to petrochemistry — and the one number that explains why.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-monomers-succinate-itaconate-fdca-bdo/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-monomers-succinate-itaconate-fdca-bdo/Four monomers routinely listed together as platform chemicals — and four different fates, decided by separation and by the buyer rather than by chemistry.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-ethylene-bio-ethylene-oxide/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/biosynthetic-ethylene-bio-ethylene-oxide/Bioethanol dehydration works and is deployed at industrial scale — for reasons that have little to do with the technology being better.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/l-lactic-acid-industrial-scale/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/l-lactic-acid-industrial-scale/The cluster’s success case: a pathway that loses no carbon, an established purification route, and a buyer who needs a specific specification.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/terpenes-terpenoids-platform-molecules/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/biochem-industrial/platform-chemicals/terpenes-terpenoids-platform-molecules/Here biology competes with difficult organic synthesis rather than with cracking — and wins on chemistry without necessarily winning on market.