Aqueous acrylamide solution containing saccharide
View Patent ↗This invention provides an aqueous solution of acrylamide that is useful as a starting material for high-quality polyacrylamide. Starting materials for polyacrylamide are an aqueous solution of acrylamide containing a saccharide and an aqueous solution of acrylamide containing a saccharide produced with the use of a biocatalyst having nitrile hydratase activity.
1. An aqueous solution comprising 40% to 60% by mass of acrylamide and 0.1 mg to 100 mg of saccharide per liter thereof.
2. The aqueous solution as claimed in claim 1 wherein said saccharide is present at from 1.0 mg to 50 mg per liter thereof.
3. An aqueous solution as claimed in claim 1 wherein said saccharide is present at from 3.0 mg to 19 mg of saccharide per liter thereof.
4. The aqueous solution as claimed in claim 1 , which is prepared by adding a saccharide-containing solution prepared with the use of a cultured organism to an aqueous solution comprising acrylamide.
5. The aqueous solution as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the organism is an organism that expresses nitrile hydratase.
6. The aqueous solution as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the organism that expresses nitrile hydratase is a microorganism.
7. The aqueous solution as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the microorganism is of the genus Rhodococcus.
8. The aqueous solution as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the microorganism of the genus Rhodococcus is Rhodococcus rhodochrous.
9. The aqueous solution as claimed in claim 1 , which is produced with the use of a biocatalyst having nitrile hydratase activity.
10. An aqueous solution as claimed in claim 1 , which further comprises a polyacrylamide obtained by polymerizing the acrylamide.
11. A process for producing an aqueous solution as claimed in claim 1 comprising producing acrylamide from acrylonitrile in an aqueous solution with the use of a biocatalyst that has nitrile hydratase activity in the presence of a saccharide, and optionally further adding saccharides, such that the resulting aqueous solution contains 40% to 60% by mass of acrylamide and 0.1 mg to 100 mg of saccharides per liter thereof.
12. A process for preparing a polyacrylamide comprising:
preparing an aqueous acrylamide solution comprising 40% to 60% by mass of acrylamide and 0.1 mg to 100 mg of saccharide per liter thereof, and
polymerizing the acrylamide in said aqueous acrylamide solution.
13. The process as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said polymerizing of the acrylamide is performed by adding a polymerization initiator to said aqueous acrylamide solution.
14. The process as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said polymerizing of the acrylamide provides a polyacrylamide having an increased viscosity.
15. The process as claimed in claim 14 , wherein said increased viscosity is 130000 mPas to 220000 mPas.
16. The process as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said preparing of the aqueous acrylamdie solution is performed by adding a saccharide-containing solution prepared with use of a cultured organism to an aqueous solution comprising acrylamdie.
17. The process as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said saccharide is a polysaccharide.
18. The process as claimed in claim 16 , wherein said organism is an organism that expresses nitrile hydratase.
19. The process as claimed in claim 18 , wherein said organism that expresses nitrile hysratase is a microorganism.
20. The process as claimed in claim 19 , wherein said microorganism is of the genus Rhodococcus.
21. The process as claimed in claim 20 , wherein said microorganism of the genus Rhodococcus is Rhodococcus rhodochrous.
22. The process as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said preparing of the aqueous acrylamide solution is performed by producing acrylamide from acrylonitrile in an aqueous solution with the use of a biocatalyst that has nitrile hydratase activity in the presence of saccharide, and optionally adding saccharides, such that the resulting aqueous solution contains 40% to 60% by mass of acrylamide and 0.1 mg to 100 mg of saccharides per liter thereof.
23. The process as claimed in claim 22 , wherein said biocatalyst is an organism that expresses nitrile hydratase.
24. The process as claimed in claim 23 , wherein said organism is a microorganism.
25. The process as claimed in claim 24 , wherein said microorganism is of the genus Rhodococcus.
26. The process as claimed in claim 25 , wherein said microorganism of the genus Rhodococcus is Rhodococcus rhodochrous.
27. The polyacrylamide as claimed in claim 10 , which has a viscosity of 130000 mPa·s to 220000 mPa·s.