Abstract
A review is given of most of the literature concerning the immobilization of whole microbial cells and their testing for application in product synthesis. The review includes a discussion of adventages and disadventages of immobilized cells, methods of immobilization, pretreatments, aftertreatments, operation, recent developments, and other problems together with a table of the immobilized microbes and the tested reactions of product synthesis, with 350 references.