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Daniel P. Okeefe, Ridley Park US

Daniel P. Okeefe, Ridley Park, PA US

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20090004707Process for Producing Glycolic Acid from Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090004708Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090004709Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde and Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090004710Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090004711Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090011482Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-08-2009
20090011483Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-08-2009
20090035841Enzymatic Production Of Glycolic Acid - Various methods are provided for the enzymatic production of glycolic acid from glycolonitrile. These methods include: 1) use of 02-05-2009
20090163376KETOL-ACID REDUCTOISOMERASE USING NADH - Methods for the evolution of NADPH binding ketol-acid reductoisomerase enzymes to acquire NADH binding functionality are provided. Specific mutant ketol-acid reductoisomerase enzymes isolated from 06-25-2009
20100143989Production Of 3-Hydroxycarboxylic Acid Using Nitrilase Mutants - This invention relates to nitrilase mutants having improved nitrilase activity for converting 3-hydroxynitriles to 3-hydroxycarboxylic acids. More specifically, the 06-10-2010
20100197519KETOL-ACID REDUCTOISOMERASE USING NADH - Methods for the evolution of NADPH specific ketol-acid reductoisomerase enzymes to acquire NADH specificity are provided. Specific mutant ketol-acid reductoisomerase enzymes isolated from 08-05-2010

Patent applications by Daniel P. Okeefe, Ridley Park, PA US