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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To find a means for providing ω-hydroxycarboxylic acids or ω-hydroxycarboxylic acid esters in a sufficient amount especially in a medium enclosing cells by fermentation. SOLUTION: The Candida tropicalis cell, especially Candida tropicalis cell from strain ATCC20336 is a cell having reduced activity of at least one enzyme encoded by an intron-free nucleic acid sequence selected from two groups including a specific group in comparison with a wild type of the cell. The use of the cell is provided. The methods for producing ω-hydroxycarboxylic acids and ω-hydroxycarboxylic acid esters are provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the acetal or ketal in an aqueous phase reaction mixture containing a high-content of alcohol by catalytically hydrogenating the acetal or ketal with a heterogenous catalyst that is acidic or neutral at room temperature thereby further reducing the acetal or ketal without decomposition of alcohol. SOLUTION: Acetals other than formal or ketal in an aqueous phase reaction mixture containing at least 10 moles of monohydric or polyhydric alcohol per mole of acetal or ketal are reduced by catalytically hydrogenation in the presence of a catalyst of a noble metal on activated carbon heterogeneously at 80-250 deg.C, preferably 100-180 deg.C, under a hydrogen partial pressure of 0.5-30 MPa. This process is particularly suitable for removal of the acetals other than formal or ketals of α-hydroxycarbonyl compounds or β-hydroxycarbonyl compound, particularly removal of 1,3-dioxolane derivatives, particularly 1,3-dioxane derivatives.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the subject compound in a high yield with reducing the formation of by-product, by using an imine or nitrile and hydrogen, hydrogenating the imine or nitrile by amination in the presence of a specific hydrogenation catalyst under specific conditions. SOLUTION: An imine or nitrile, especially isophoronenitrile is hydrogenated by using hydrogen by amination in the presence of a hydrogenating catalyst basically comprising ammonium, cobalt, nickel, ruthenium or these metal mixture and a hydroxide, especially quaternary ammonium hydroxide at 50-250 deg.C under 0.3-30 MPa and the reaction mixture is subjected to after-treatment to give a primary amine and/or a secondary amine, especially isophoronediamine. Isophoronenitrile-imine is 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexaneimine and isophoronediamine is 3-aminomethyl-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexylamine.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a catalyst capable of advantageously performing the hydrogenation, dehydrogenation and hydrocracking of an organic and inorganic body by forming the catalyst only from a catalytic alloy and specifying total pore volume or the like in a molded metal-fixed bed catalyst containing a catalytic metal, an alloy component capable of eluting and if necessary, a co-catalyst. SOLUTION: In the metal-fixed bed catalyst, the catalyst is formed only from the catalytic alloy, attains 0.1-0.6 ml/g total pore volume and a part of an outside layer 0.1-2.0 mm thick from the surface is activated by the elusion of the alloy component capable being completely or partially eluted. And as the preferable catalyst component, nickel, cobalt, copper or iron and as the alloy component capable of eluting, aluminum, zinc or silicon is used. And the weight ratio of the catalyst metal and the alloy component capable of being eluted is setted to (30:70) to (70:30). Further s the co-catalyst,
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new method for hydrogenating an aromatic amine in the presence of a ruthenium-containing supported catalyst in order to acquire a desired alicyclic amine with high selectivity. SOLUTION: The carrier of this catalyst has a BET surface area within a range being more than 30 m 2 /g and less than 70 m 2 /g, the pore volume exceeding 50% of the carrier comprises macropores having a pore size exceeding 50 nm and the pore volume of below 50% of the carrier comprises mesopores having a pore size of 2 to 50 nm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for easily producing the objective decomposition products in high selectivity, at a little use of a catalyst or at high space time yield, with the optional use of an acidic catalyst by subjecting a linear or cyclic acetal to reductive decomposition, in the presence of a heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst and hydrogen, in a formate-containing aqueous medium under specific conditions. SOLUTION: A linear or cyclic acetal is subjected to reductive decomposition, in the presence of heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst and hydrogen, at a pH of less than 7 under a pressure of 0.1-30 MPa at a temperature of 200-300 deg.C, preferably 200-280 deg.C in a formate-containing aqueous medium, wherein the weight ratio of a hydrogenation activating metal to the acetal is less than 0.1 in the case of the operation of a suspension. Preferable examples of the catalyst to be used above are supported catalysts prepared by supporting the hydrogenation activating metal such as Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt, Cu, Cr, Fe, Co or Ni on a base of a support consisting of activated carbon or an oxide.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply carry out intermolecular etherification of an alcohol and degradation of ether in high ether yield and good monoether selectivity without producing a by-product such as colored material by using a combination of an acid catalyst with a hydrogenation catalyst and water as a solvent. SOLUTION: When a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol (A) is etherified or an ether is subjected to ether decomposition in water phase in the presence of (B) an acid catalyst (e.g. formic acid, acetic acid or propionic acid) at >=100 deg.C (e.g. 120-380 deg.C) to carry out intermolecular etherification of the component A and ether degradation, the reaction is carried out in coexistence of (C) a hydrogenation catalyst which is stable to an acid [e.g. monovalent or polyvalent noble metal (compound) which is a series of ruthenium, rhodium, palladium or platinum]under hydrogen atmosphere (e.g. 1-15 MPa hydrogen partial pressure). The reaction is preferably carried out by using the component B in an amount of 0.1-20 wt.% based on polyol and the component C in an amount of 0.001-10 wt.% based on the component A or ether to be degraded.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for production a primary and/or secondary amine from an oxo compound suppressing the formation of byproduct by using an organopolysiloxane containing a sulfonate group as a catalyst for turning the oxo compound into imino and turning the oxo compound into an imino with excess ammonia. SOLUTION: An oxo compound is turned into an imino with excess ammonia in a case of a primary amine or with a lower monoalkylamine in a case of a secondary amine respectively by using an organopolyusiloxane containing a sulfonate group as a catalyst, if necessary, in the presence of an organic solvent, and hydrogenating the resultant reaction product in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst at 20-250 deg.C under 0.5-25MPa pressure to provide the objective amine in the method for producing the primary and/or secondary amine from the oxo compound.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce an alcohol in high yield by catalytically hydrogenating a specific aldehyde or a ketone in an aqueous solution or an organic solvent at a specified temperature under a specific hydrogen pressure using a specified ruthenium catalyst. SOLUTION: (B) An aldehyde (except 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde) or a ketone is catalytically hydrogenated in an aqueous solution or an organic solvent at 0-200 deg.C temperature under 0.5-30 MPa H2 pressure while using (A) a ruthenium catalyst having 0.1-20 wt.% of ruthenium content and using the ruthenium on an oxide carrier (preferably TiO2 or SiO2) consisting of the group of TiO2, SiO2, ZrO2, MgO2, mixed oxides and silicic salts except zeolite as a catalyst. Furthermore, acetals and ketals which are by-products can be decomposed by conducting the above hydrogenation in the presence of an acidic catalyst.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a five or six-membered cyclic ether, capable of producing the dehydrogenative cyclization product containing a polymer in an amount of only