A modern trend to carbon dioxide neutral production processes is based on renewable raw materials derived from sugars. Herein, an overview on modern approaches to fine chemicals for the nutritional industry is presented. In comparison to the traditional fossil-fuel-based processes the
development of sustainable alternative transformations is necessary to enable the full potential of the new sustainable feedstocks.
Collaborations between academia and industry are vital for modern industrial research and development projects, combining the best of both worlds to develop sustainable chemical processes. Herein we summarize a number of successful cooperations between DSM Nutritional Products and Swiss
academic institutions that have been carried out over approximately the past decade. A wide variety of reactions and processes have been investigated with experts located in Switzerland. New synthetic routes, chemical transformations and reactor concepts have been developed to produce industrially
relevant compounds. Additionally the scope of known catalytic systems has been probed and new catalysts showing improved selectivity have been designed, synthesized and tested. We describe how the research was supported by DSM, the parallel in-house investigations and also how the projects
were continued and further developed.
Vitamin E ist das wichtigste fettlösliche Antioxidans in biologischen
Systemen. Es verhindert radikal induzierte Kettenreaktionen von Lipidoxidationen
und ist dadurch essenziell für die Funktion und den Erhalt von
Membranen. Der Begriff Vitamin E umfasst historisch eine Substanzklasse, die
qualitativ die gleichen biologischen Eigenschaften wie α-Tocopherol
besitzt, die sogenannten Tocole und Tocotrienole. Für die Anwendung in
der Futtermittel-, Pharma-, Lebensmittel- und Kosmetikbranche werden
jährlich über 75000 Tonnen α-Tocopherylacetat und
α-Tocopherol verarbeitet.
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