These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Microbial oxidation of ebastine.
    Author: Schwartz H, Liebig-Weber A, Hochstätter H, Böttcher H.
    Journal: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol; 1996 Feb; 44(6):731-5. PubMed ID: 8867630.
    Abstract:
    The microbial oxidation of ebastine to carebastine was investigated. Among the 15 micro-organisms examined, only the Cunninghamella strains showed the desired biotransformation. Cunninghamella blakesleeana oxidised the substrate within 7 days, via the intermediates alcohol and aldehyde, mainly to carebastine, the corresponding carboxylic acid. Optimisation of the culture conditions increased the yield from initially 10% up to a reproducible 40%. For the synthesis of carebastine a substrate concentration of 200 mg/l, a starting pH of 5.0 and the addition of 1% poly(vinyl alcohol) is favourable. The results achieved in experiments with shaking flasks are transferable to the fermentation scale and yielded 270 mg carebastine in a 3-1 fermentation of 600 mg ebastine. The progress of the reaction was detected by TLC and HPLC, the products were identified by mass spectrometry and NMR.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]