Session: Biocatalysis in Polymer Science


POLY		Thursday, 14 September 2006

8:30 AM-11:45 AM San Francisco Marriott -- Salon 12/13, Oral
Biocatalysis in Polymer Science
Polyester Synthesis and Degradation
Organizers:	H. N. Cheng Richard A. Gross
Presiding:	Shiro Kobayashi
8:30 AM	670	Enzyme-catalyzed synthesis and degradation of polyester and polythioester Shuichi Matsumura, Makoto Kato, Satoko Sugihara, Kazunobu Toshima
9:00 AM	671	CAL-B catalyzed synthesis of poly(butylene succinate) Himanshu Azim, Alex Dekhterman, Zhaozhong Jiang, Richard A. Gross
9:30 AM	672	Immobilization of Candida antarctica Lipase B on macroporous resins: Effects of resin chemistry, reaction conditions and resin hydrophobicity Alankar Vaidya, James C. Bohling, M. Elizabeth Miller, Richard A Gross
10:00 AM		Intermission
10:15 AM	673	High molecular weight aliphatic polyesters from enzyme-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization and their use Ann-Christine Albertsson, Rajiv K. Srivastava
10:45 AM	674	Lipase catalyzed route to hyperbranched polymers with dendritic Trimethylolpropane units Ankur Kulshrestha, Wei Gao, Hongyong Fu, Richard Gross
11:15 AM	675	Cutinase: A new biocatalyst for polyester synthesis via polycondensation reactions Abul Azim, Mo Hunsen, Harald Mang, Sabine R. Wallner, Asa Ronkvist, Wenchun Xie, Richard A. Gross

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