Showa Denko K.k.

Sds Biotech K.k.

Takashi Echigo

Keijitsu Tanaka

Ritsuko Ohno

Hirobumi Aoki

Masahiko Hiramoto

A method for treating wood, characterized by impregnating wood with a metal-containing treating agent containing lignin and/or lignin derivatives and a metal, a metal compound, and/or a metal ion and oxidizing and/or macromolecularizing of the lignin and/or lignin derivatives in the wood to fix the metal component in the wood, and wood and woody materials obtained by the treating method. According to the method of the present invention, while effectively utilizing lignins, lignosulfonic acids, or lignosulfonic acid salts, leaching of the metal component can be suppressed to a low level to thereby retain the effects due to the incorporation of the metal components for a prolonged period.

Method for treating wood with a metal-containing treating agent and wood treated thereby

A process for macromolecularizing phenolic compounds or aromatic amine compounds by the action of a catalyst comprising an enzyme having a polyphenol oxidizing activity in the alkali region; applications of the compounds obtained by the above process to thickeners, stabilizers, coagulants, emulsifiers, dispersants, water retainers, antioxidants, adhesives, concrete admixtures, dyes, coating materials, petroleum recovering agent, soil conditioner, a blow-applied seed bearing surface soil stabilizer, deodorants, smell eliminators, agricultural chemical spreaders, feeding stuff binders, bactericides, antimicrobial agents, viral infection inhibitors, bioadhesion preventives, biotic repellents, insecticides, poultices, ink bases or wood treating agents; and method of waste water disposal, a method of deoxygenation and a method of treating wood, concrete or soil in which use is made of the above reaction.

Process for macromolecularizing phenolic compounds etc. and use thereof

Process for producing high-molecular-weight phenolic compounds with myrothecium

A method for preparing dimethylolcarboxylic acid derivatives represented by general formula (1) ##STR1## (wherein R is a hydrogen atom, an amino group, an alkyl group, or an alkyl group having a hydroxyl group) to react with a culture broth, cells or a processed cell product of a microorganism belonging to the genus Rhodococcus or Agrobacterium having an ability to oxidize a methylol group of the tris(hydroxymethyl) derivative represented by general formula (2) ##STR2## wherein R has the same meaning as defined above. According to this invention, dimethylolcarboxylic acid derivatives can be produced efficiently under mild conditions by using microorganisms belonging to the genus Rhodococcus or Agrobacterium and having an ability to oxidize tris(hydroxy-methyl) derivatives to produce dimethylolcarboxylic acid derivatives.

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Chiba, Japan

Takashi Echigo