Corrosion resistant Zn‐Co alloys were electrodeposited on the steel sheet cathode from an acid galvanizing bath containing a small amount of cobalt sulfate. Under most of the plating conditions studied, the anomalous codeposition and, hence, the preferential deposition of electrochemically less noble Zn occurred. The electrodeposition process of the alloy including the Zn hydroxide formation resulting from the rise in pH in the vicinity of the cathode was estimated by electrochemical and spectroscopic studies.
Microbioreactors are effective for high-throughput production of expensive products from small amounts of substrates. Lipases are versatile enzymes for chiral syntheses, and are highly activated when immobilized in alkyl-substituted silicates by the sol-gel method. For practical application of sol-gel immobilized lipases to a flow system, a microbioreactor loaded with a macroporous silica monolith is well suited, because it can be easily integrated with a chromatographic separator for optical resolution. We attempted to develop a microbioreactor containing a silica monolith-immobilized lipase. A nonshrinkable silica monolith was first formed from a 4:1 mixture of methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) and tetramethoxysilane (TMOS). It was then coated with silica precipitates entrapping lipase, derived from a 4:1 mixture of n-butyltrimethoxysilane (BTMS) and TMOS. As a result, monolith treated with the BTMS-based silicate entrapping lipase exhibited approximately ten times higher activity than nontreated monolith-immobilized lipase derived from the MTMS-based silicate, in transesterification between glycidol and vinyl n-butyrate in isooctane. A commercially available chiral column was connected in series to the monolith microbioreactor, and a pulse of substrate solution was supplied at the inlet of the reactor. Successful resolution of the racemic ester produced was achieved in the chromatographic column.
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