Microbial degradation of nitrile compounds. Part IV. Fungal degradation of triacrylonitrile.

1 January 1981

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Agricultural and Biological Chemistry

Vol. 45 (1) , 57-62
https://doi.org/10.1271/bbb1961.45.57

Abstract

Two fungal strains, TG-1 and TG-2, utilizing triacrylonitrile (1, 3, 6-hexanetricarbonitrile, TAN) as nitrogen source, were isolated from soil and identified as Fusarium merismoides Corda var. merismoides and Fusarium solani (Mart.) Sacc. emend. Snyder et Hansen var. solani, respectively. F. merismoides TG- 1 could utilize TAN, adiponitrile, glutaronitrile, diacrylonitrile and 2, 4-dicyano-1-butene as nitrogen source. Conditions for cultivation of the strain were studied. Degradation products of TAN were isolated from the culture broth and determined to be a mixture of 5, 7- dicyanoheptanoic acid (62%) and 4, 7-dicyanoheptanoic acid (38%). A mixture of 5, 7- dicyanoheptanoic acid (11%) and 4, 7-dicyanoheptanoic acid (89%) was also obtained from the culture broth of F. solani TG-2.

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