Alcohol continued biodegradability

After the first hydrolytic step, secondary alcohols seem to continue biodegradation through ketone, hydroxyketone, and diketone. Diketones then produce a fatty acid and a linear aldehyde which is further oxidized to fatty acid. Finally, these two fatty acids continue biodegradation by enzymatic 3 oxidation [410],... 

Chitosan (CS) nanofibers with a diameter of 150-200 nm were fabricated from a mixed chitosan/ poly (vinyl alcohol) solution by the electrospinning method. Hen egg-white lysozyme was iimno-bilized on electrospun CS nanofibers via cross-hnked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs) and used for effective and continuous antibacterial applications. CS has excellent biological properties, such as biodegradability, biocompatibility, antibacterial properties, non-toxicity, hydrophilicity, high... 

In a later work, Lim et al [332] used a biodegradable surfactant Empilan KB6ZA, lauryl alcohol condensed with 6 mol. equivalent of ethylene oxide (22.5 wt %), along with petroleum ether as the continuous oil phase (52.5 wt %). The... 

It should be noted that continuous sulfation is widely used today, with the mixture of SOj/air in reactors such as Chemithon, Allied, or Ballestra. Moreover, alcohol sulfates are preferably used in alkaline formulations because of their low stability in acid medium. However, they are completely biodegradable and compete with petrochemical-derived linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS). 

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