History of Lactic Acid

H. Benninga, A History of Lactic Acid Making, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1990. 

Benninga, H. 1990 A History of Lactic Acid Making A Chapter in the History of Biotechnology. Dordrecht, the Netherlands Kluwer. 

Peter Spitz, Petrochemicals The Rise of an Industry (New York John Wiley Sons, 1988), p. 514. V. M. Walsh, J. F. Townsend, B. G. Achilladelis and C. Freeman, Trends in invention and innovation in the chemical industry, reached similar conclusions about the importance of demand and feedstocks (see page 5.20). By contrast, Achilladelis played down the importance of feedstocks in his thesis see Process Innovation in the Chemical Industry, p. 245. The Krauch family form an impressive dynasty. Carl Heinrich s grandfather, also called Carl, was a pharmacist and production manager at Merck (Darmstadt). See Heine Verstand Shicksal, p. 98, and H. Benniga, A History of Lactic Acid Manufacture (Dordrecht Kluwer, 1990), pp. 129-134, 153. 

Anderson KS, Hillmyer MA (2006) Melt preparation and nucleation efficiency of polylactide stereocomplex crystallites. Polymer 47 2030-2035 Benninga H (1990) A history of lactic acid making a chapter in the history of biotechnology. Kluwer, Dordrecht... 

Lactic acid was discovered in 1780 by the experimental chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who isolated acid of milk from sour whey [12, 13]. A further description of the history of lactic acid by Holten and Benninga shows that industrial production of lactic acid started in the United States in the 1880s [14, 15]. Avery patented and applied a process of fermentation of vegetable sugars [16]. The actual application was the use of a mixture of calcium lactate and lactic acid as baking powder. Unfortunately, this application was not a big success, but other applications in food and textile dyeing were developed. 

Table XI. History of Discovery of Common Lactic Acid Bacteria (16)...

Polylactides, 18 Poly lactones, 18, 43 Poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA), 22, 41, 42 preparation of, 99-100 Polymer age, 1 Polymer architecture, 6-9 Polymer chains, nonmesogenic units in, 52 Polymer Chemistry (Stevens), 5 Polymeric chiral catalysts, 473-474 Polymeric materials, history of, 1-2 Polymeric MDI (PMDI), 201, 210, 238 Polymerizations. See also Copolymerization Depolymerization Polyesterification Polymers Prepolymerization Repolymerization Ring-opening polymerization Solid-state polymerization Solution polymerization Solvent-free polymerization Step-grown polymerization processes Vapor-phase deposition polymerization acid chloride, 155-157 ADMET, 4, 10, 431-461 anionic, 149, 174, 177-178 batch, 167 bulk, 166, 331 chain-growth, 4 continuous, 167, 548 coupling, 467 Friedel-Crafts, 332-334 Hoechst, 548 hydrolytic, 150-153 influence of water content on, 151-152, 154... 

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