Photobiocatalytic strategies for organic synthesis

MA Emmanuel, SG Bender, C Bilodeau… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis has revolutionized chemical synthesis, providing sustainable methods for
preparing various organic molecules. In enzyme-mediated organic synthesis, most reactions …

Biocatalysis: enzymatic synthesis for industrial applications

S Wu, R Snajdrova, JC Moore… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biocatalysis has found numerous applications in various fields as an alternative to chemical
catalysis. The use of enzymes in organic synthesis, especially to make chiral compounds for …

Enzyme entrapment, biocatalyst immobilization without covalent attachment

HT Imam, PC Marr, AC Marr - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In entrapment an active species, which is often a catalyst, is trapped within a material by a
solid or gel forming event; thus, it becomes dispersed within the solid or semi-solid matrix …

Biocatalytic oxidation reactions: a chemist's perspective

JJ Dong, E Fernández‐Fueyo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidation chemistry using enzymes is approaching maturity and practical applicability in
organic synthesis. Oxidoreductases (enzymes catalysing redox reactions) enable chemists …

Enzymatic reactions in confined environments

A Küchler, M Yoshimoto, S Luginbühl, F Mavelli… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Within each biological cell, surface-and volume-confined enzymes control a highly complex
network of chemical reactions. These reactions are efficient, timely, and spatially defined …

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 …

Photobiocatalysis: activating redox enzymes by direct or indirect transfer of photoinduced electrons

SH Lee, DS Choi, SK Kuk… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Biocatalytic transformation has received increasing attention in the green synthesis of
chemicals because of the diversity of enzymes, their high catalytic activities and specificities …

Scalable biocatalytic C–H oxyfunctionalization reactions

S Chakrabarty, Y Wang, JC Perkins… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic C–H oxyfunctionalization reactions have garnered significant attention in recent
years with their ability to streamline synthetic routes toward complex molecules …

Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

Chiral hypervalent iodines: active players in asymmetric synthesis

A Parra - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Asymmetric organocatalytic oxidations have been witnessed to an impressive development
in the last years thanks to the establishment of important chiral hypervalent iodines (III/V) …