Biocatalysis making waves in organic chemistry

U Hanefeld, F Hollmann, CE Paul - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has an enormous impact on chemical synthesis. The waves in which
biocatalysis has developed, and in doing so changed our perception of what organic …

Fundamentals, applications, and future directions of bioelectrocatalysis

H Chen, O Simoska, K Lim, M Grattieri, M Yuan… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bioelectrocatalysis is an interdisciplinary research field combining biocatalysis and
electrocatalysis via the utilization of materials derived from biological systems as catalysts to …

Round, round we go–strategies for enzymatic cofactor regeneration

S Mordhorst, JN Andexer - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the beginning of 2020 Enzymes depending on cofactors are essential in
many biosynthetic pathways of natural products. They are often involved in key steps …

Biocatalytic reduction reactions from a chemist's perspective

F Hollmann, DJ Opperman… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reductions play a key role in organic synthesis, producing chiral products with new
functionalities. Enzymes can catalyse such reactions with exquisite stereo‐, regio‐and …

Discovery, characterization, engineering, and applications of ene-reductases for industrial biocatalysis

HS Toogood, NS Scrutton - ACS catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Recent studies of multiple enzyme families collectively called ene-reductases (ERs) have
highlighted potential industrial applications of these biocatalysts in the production of fine and …

Enzyme immobilization in hydrogels: A perfect liaison for efficient and sustainable biocatalysis

J Meyer, LE Meyer, S Kara - Engineering in life sciences, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biocatalysis is an established chemical synthesis technology that has by no means been
restricted to research laboratories. The use of enzymes for organic synthesis has evolved …

Ene‐reductase: a multifaceted biocatalyst in organic synthesis

T Kumar Roy, R Sreedharan, P Ghosh… - … A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biocatalysis integrate microbiologists, enzymologists, and organic chemists to access the
repertoire of pharmaceutical and agrochemicals with high chemoselectivity, regioselectivity …

[HTML][HTML] Design and biocatalytic applications of genetically fused multifunctional enzymes

DT Monterrey, I Ayuso-Fernández, I Oroz-Guinea… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fusion proteins, understood as those created by joining two or more genes that originally
encoded independent proteins, have numerous applications in biotechnology, from …

Electron transfer in the confined environments of metal–organic coordination supramolecular systems

Y **, Q Zhang, Y Zhang, C Duan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The incorporation of electron transfer pairs in both ground and excited states (including
electron transfer pairs in excited states and hydrogen or oxygen transfer pairs in ground …

Cofactor engineering for more efficient production of chemicals and biofuels

M Wang, B Chen, Y Fang, T Tan - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
Cofactors are involved in numerous intracellular reactions and critically influence redox
balance and cellular metabolism. Cofactor engineering can support and promote the …