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 …

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 …

Navigating the landscape of enzyme design: from molecular simulations to machine learning

J Zhou, M Huang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Global environmental issues and sustainable development call for new technologies for fine
chemical synthesis and waste valorization. Biocatalysis has attracted great attention as the …

Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases: tunable oxidative biocatalysts

MJLJ Fürst, A Gran-Scheuch, FS Aalbers… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pollution, accidents, and misinformation have earned the pharmaceutical and chemical
industry a poor public reputation, despite their undisputable importance to society …

Laboratory evolution of stereoselective enzymes: a prolific source of catalysts for asymmetric reactions

MT Reetz - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Asymmetric catalysis plays a key role in modern synthetic organic chemistry, with synthetic
catalysts and enzymes being the two available options. During the latter part of the last …

Baeyer− Villiger monooxygenases: more than just green chemistry

H Leisch, K Morley, PCK Lau - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
What is life without oxygen is a rhetorical question. On the other hand, unraveling the
intricacies and understanding the various mechanisms underpinning the biological …

Flavoprotein monooxygenases, a diverse class of oxidative biocatalysts

WJH Van Berkel, NM Kamerbeek, MW Fraaije - Journal of biotechnology, 2006 - Elsevier
During the last decades a large number of flavin-dependent monooxygenases have been
isolated and studied. This has revealed that flavoprotein monooxygenases are able to …

Enzyme-mediated oxidations for the chemist

F Hollmann, IWCE Arends, K Buehler, A Schallmey… - Green …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis is an enabling technology adding to organic oxidation chemistry. Especially the
high selectivity of enzymatic oxidation coevally operating under mild conditions and not …

Synthesis of chiral pharmaceutical intermediates by biocatalysis

RN Patel - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Chirality is a key factor in the safety and efficacy of many drug products and thus the
production of single enantiomers of drug intermediates has become increasingly important …

Extremophiles and extremozymes in lignin bioprocessing

D Zhu, MA Qaria, B Zhu, J Sun, B Yang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignin is the most abundant aromatic biopolymer resource in nature. Due to its complexity
and highly polymerized aromatic structure, lignin is strenuous to be merely degraded by …