Authors: Sanja Jeremic, Lidija Djokic, Vladimir Ajdačić, Nina Božinović, Vladimir Pavlovic, Dragan D Manojlović, Ramesh Babu, Ramsankar Senthamaraikannan, Orlando Rojas, Igor Opsenica, Jasmina Nikodinovic-Runic
Publication Date: 05/15/2019
Journal: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Volume: 129
Pages: 351-360
Publisher: Elsevier
Bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) emerged as an attractive advanced biomaterial that provides desirable properties such as high strength, lightweight, tailorable surface chemistry, hydrophilicity, and biodegradability.
BNC was successfully obtained from a wide range of carbon sources including sugars derived from grass biomass using Komagataeibacter medellinensis ID13488 strain with yields up to 6 g L−1 in static fermentation. Produced BNC was utilized in straightforward catalyst preparation as a solid support for two different transition metals, palladium and copper with metal loading of 20 and 3 wt%, respectively. Sustainable catalysts were applied in the synthesis of valuable fine chemicals, such as biphenyl-4-amine and 4′-fluorobiphenyl-4-amine, used in drug discovery, perfumes and dye industries with excellent product yields of up to 99%. Pd/BNC catalyst was reused 4 times and applied in two …
