Clostridium acetobutilicum

A. Mulchandani and B. Volesky, Production of Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol by Clostridium Acetobutilicum, ]. Biotechnology, 34, 51-60, Apr. 30 (1994). 

The manufacture of acetone shows a different interplay. Its source in the nineteenth century was wood, whose destructive distillation yielded both acetone and methanol (Scheme 6.2). In the United Kingdom the necessary timber was imported from Austria, and that supply was cut off during World War I. Weizmann then developed a fermentation process based on the growth of Clostridium acetobutilicum (then called Bacillus macerans) on starch in the absence of oxygen. This yielded a mixture of acetone, butan-l-ol and ethanol in the ratio 6 3 1 by weight these three... 

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