Chirality is a basic characteristic of living matter and nature. During the evolution of life on
our planet, nature has favored one kind of chirality, thereby selecting the l-amino acids (with …

Microbial enzymes are of great importance in the development of industrial bioprocesses.
Current applications are focused on many different markets including pulp and paper …

Multi‐enzymatic cascade reactions, ie, the combination of several enzymatic transformations
in concurrent one‐pot processes, offer considerable advantages: the demand of time, costs …

Biocatalysis is an emerging area of technology, and to date few reports have documented
the economics of such processes. As it is a relatively new technology, many processes do …

Biocatalysis fulfils many key criteria of green chemistry, but this raises the question: how
efficient are such production methods and how important is biotechnology for greener …

The computational study of enantioselective reactions is a challenging task that requires
high accuracy, as very small energy differences have to be reproduced. Quantum chemical …

Various biocatalytic methods have been developed for the synthesis of chiral chemicals,
which have made their synthesis more environmentally friendly and product-specific. New …

Ammonia lyases catalyse the reversible addition of ammonia to cinnamic acid (1: R= H) and
p-hydroxycinnamic (1: R= OH) to generate l-phenylalanine (2: R= H) and l-tyrosine (2: R …

This review updates enantioselective multicatalysed tandem reactions covering the literature
since the beginning of 2010. This compilation clearly demonstrates that the concept of …

Carbon‐carbon bond formation is among the most challenging transformations in the
organic synthetic chemistry. Enzymes capable to perform this reaction are of great interest …