Plastics have become ubiquitous in both their adoption as materials and as environmental
contaminants. Widespread pollution of these versatile, man‐made and largely petroleum …

Pollution, accidents, and misinformation have earned the pharmaceutical and chemical
industry a poor public reputation, despite their undisputable importance to society …

Flavin-dependent monooxygenases (FMOs) are ancient enzymes present in all kingdoms of
life. FMOs typically catalyze the incorporation of an oxygen atom from molecular oxygen into …

Biosurfactants combined with bioaugmentation for the remediation of petroleum
hydrocarbon-contaminated soils proved to be one of the most effective ways. However …

Regio-and stereoselective Baeyer–Villiger oxidations are difficult to achieve by classical
chemical means, particularly when large, functionalized molecules are to be converted …

Abstract Nine new putative Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase encoding genes were identified
in the eukaryote Yarrowia lipolytica and eight were subsequently cloned and expressed …

Microbial transformations of steroids are an important method of obtaining new steroid
derivatives of potential pharmaceutical activity, which follows the principles of green …

The important disease Ramularia leaf spot of barley is caused by the fungus Ramularia collo-
cygni. The disease causes yield and quality losses as a result of a decrease in …

Lactones are important secondary metabolites for fungi. In this chapter are presented some
lactones that are important in biotechnology such as flavoring lactones or fragrance …

FAD-dependent Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases (BVMOs) have proven to be useful
biocatalysts in the selective and specific oxygenation of various ketones. Despite the …