How could we produce organic acids in industrial bioprocess??????

Question

How could we produce organic acids in industrial bioprocess??????

Answer 1

Carboxylic acids can be produced by oxidising primary alcohols.

The primary alcohols will turn to aldehyde's then on to carboxylic acids.

(This is why you must leave a bottle of red wine to "breath", because it partially oxidises to form aldehydes which ad flavour, however if the bottle is left too long, it will turn tino the acid (giving a vingar)).

If you want more information, i can go into far more detail and they can also be formed from anhydrides, esters, amides and nitriles directly, but these can all be formed from other groups, so the possabilities are endless, you reali need to give more info.

I know its not biology - but its the best answer so far :/

Answer 2

You specified bioprocesses.

Almost all animal and vegetable fat and oil consists of glycerol esters of long chain carboxylic acids. when these are boiled up with alkali, they decompose, and ordinary soap is made up of the salts of the carboxylic acids.

We could produce vinegar (dissolved acetic acid), instead of alcohol, from sugar by allowing the fermentation to take place in the presence of air, but other ways of getting to vinegar are cheaper.