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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: kahynickel on September 29, 2014, 02:55:16 PM

Title: Fermentation
Post by: kahynickel on September 29, 2014, 02:55:16 PM

Fermentation is suitable for ethanol only. Can"t we use fructose or any other sugar for the preparation of other alcohol??

Title: Re: Fermentation
Post by: Babcock_Hall on September 29, 2014, 06:32:57 PM

Many fermentations do not produce ethanol at all.  It depends on the organism.  IMO fermentation is more usefully defined as the anaerobic catabolism of a carbohydrate.

Title: Re: Fermentation
Post by: Mitch on October 01, 2014, 12:38:14 PM

Also, many labs are working on creating genetically modified microbes that will ferment gasoline products. The work of Jay Keasling (http://keaslinglab.lbl.gov/) comes to mind.