Production of useful sugars from cellobiose using photocatalysis

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K14040
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Bio-related chemistry
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Science
• Principal Investigator: Nakata Kazuya 東京理科大学, 理工学部応用生物科学科, 准教授 (70514115)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 希少糖 / 光触媒

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this work, we focused on photocatalysis showing strong oxidative reaction for organic chemicals, which used for degradation of cellobiose to produce useful sugars such as glucose and rare sugars, After photocatlytic treatment for cellobiose, glucose was produced. And also, rare disaccharide composed of glucose and arabinose was obtained. From the detailed analysis of the photocatalytic reaction for sugars, alfa-carbon in sugar was reacted, resluting in decarboxylation to convert another sugars. Furthermore, organic acids and aldehydes were generated.

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光触媒