A method of producing higher alkanones, preferably 6-undecanone, from ethanol and/or acetate, may include: (a) contacting the ethanol and/or acetate with at least one microorganism capable of carrying out carbon chain elongation to produce hexanoic acid and/or an ester thereof from the ethanol and/or acetate; (b) extracting the hexanoic acid and/or ester thereof from the contacting (a) using at least one extractant in an aqueous medium, the extractant including at least one alkyl-phosphine oxide and at least one C12+ alkane; or at least one trialkylamine and at least one C12+ alkane; and (c) contacting the extracted hexanoic acid and/or ester thereof from (b) with at least one ketonization catalyst and eventually a further C1 to C22 alkanoic acid under suitable reaction conditions for chemical ketonization of hexanoic acid and eventually the further alkanoic acid to a higher alkanone, preferably 6-undecanone.

The invention relates to compositions and methods, including polynucleotide sequences, amino acid sequences, and engineered host cells for producing fatty acids and derivates of fatty acids such as acyl-CoA, terminal olefins, fatty aldehydes, fatty alcohols, alkanes, alkenes, wax esters, ketones and internal olefins through altered expression of the transcription factor, fadR.

The invention relates to compositions and methods, including polynucleotide sequences, amino acid sequences, and engineered host cells for producing fatty acids and derivates of fatty acids such as acyl-CoA, terminal olefins, fatty aldehydes, fatty alcohols, alkanes, alkenes, wax esters, ketones and internal olefins through altered expression of the transcription factor, fadR.

The present disclosure provides improved methods of performing ozonolysis on alkenes comprising non-reductive quenching of ozonide intermediates using Bronsted bases to yield aldehyde, ketone and/or carboxylic acid products.

The present disclosure provides improved methods of performing ozonolysis on alkenes comprising non-reductive quenching of ozonide intermediates using Bronsted bases to yield aldehyde, ketone and/or carboxylic acid products.

A method for producing an indium carboxylate of the present invention comprises the steps of reacting a hydroxyl group-containing indium carboxylate represented by Formula (1): In(RCOO).sub.3-x(OH).sub.x, wherein R is a straight chain or branched chain aliphatic group having 0 to 5 carbon atoms, and x is a number more than 0 and less than 3, with a lower carboxylic acid represented by the following Formula (2): R′COOH, wherein R′ is a hydrogen atom or a straight chain or branched chain aliphatic group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and the hydrogen atom in the aliphatic group may be replaced with a halogen atom, so as to obtain a product; and then reacting the product with a higher carboxylic acid having 12 or more carbon atoms.

A method for producing an indium carboxylate of the present invention comprises the steps of reacting a hydroxyl group-containing indium carboxylate represented by Formula (1): In(RCOO).sub.3-x(OH).sub.x, wherein R is a straight chain or branched chain aliphatic group having 0 to 5 carbon atoms, and x is a number more than 0 and less than 3, with a lower carboxylic acid represented by the following Formula (2): R′COOH, wherein R′ is a hydrogen atom or a straight chain or branched chain aliphatic group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and the hydrogen atom in the aliphatic group may be replaced with a halogen atom, so as to obtain a product; and then reacting the product with a higher carboxylic acid having 12 or more carbon atoms.

Platinum complexes having ferrocene-diphosphine ligands for catalysis of the hydroxycarbonylation of ethylenically unsaturated compounds.

Platinum complexes having ferrocene-diphosphine ligands for catalysis of the hydroxycarbonylation of ethylenically unsaturated compounds.

Platinum complexes having binaphthyl-based diphosphine ligands for the selective catalysis of the hydroxycarbonylation of ethylenically unsaturated compounds.