Method for preparing butanone from levulinic acid using a decarboxylase biocatalyst

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for producing butanone by decarboxylating levulinic acid in the presence of an acetoacetate dicarboxylase (AADC) biocatalyst and / or an AADC-expressing microorganism, optionally together with an electron transfer mediator to provide. The present invention proposes a novel biocatalytic reaction process which utilizes levulinic acid obtained from biomass such as seaweed or saccharides to obtain 2-butanone which can be converted into 2-butanol, which is a biofuel having various applications.