Broadening the scope of biocatalysis in sustainable organic synthesis

RA Sheldon, D Brady - ChemSusChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This Review is aimed at synthetic organic chemists who may be familiar with organometallic
catalysis but have no experience with biocatalysis, and seeks to provide an answer to the …

New generation of biocatalysts for organic synthesis

BM Nestl, SC Hammer, BA Nebel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The use of enzymes as catalysts for the preparation of novel compounds has received
steadily increasing attention over the past few years. High demands are placed on the …

Self-powered respiratory monitoring strategy based on adaptive dual-network thermogalvanic hydrogels

X Li, J Li, T Wang, SA Khan, Z Yuan… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
As a low-grade sustainable heat source, the breath waste heat exhaled by human bodies is
always ignored, although producing a greater temperature than ambient. Converting this …

Ultrahigh-throughput–directed enzyme evolution by absorbance-activated droplet sorting (AADS)

F Gielen, R Hours, S Emond… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Ultrahigh-throughput screening, in which members of enzyme libraries compartmentalized
in water-in-oil emulsion droplets are assayed, has emerged as a powerful format for directed …

A 13-million turnover-number anionic Ir-catalyst for a selective industrial route to chiral nicotine

C Yin, YF Jiang, F Huang, CQ Xu, Y Pan, S Gao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Develo** catalysts with both useful enantioselectivities and million turnover numbers
(TONs) for asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones is attractive for industrial production of high …

Anti‐fatigue and highly conductive thermocells for continuous electricity generation

Z Lei, W Gao, W Zhu, P Wu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of wearable technologies with the human body requires power supplies that
are mechanically compatible and able to continuously generate electricity like biological …

Immobilisation of enzymes on mesoporous silicate materials

E Magner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Mesoporous silicates (MPS) are attractive materials for the immobilisation of enzymes. They
possess ordered pore structures, narrow pore size distributions, large surface areas, high …

Anti-Markovnikov alkene oxidation by metal-oxo–mediated enzyme catalysis

SC Hammer, G Kubik, E Watkins, S Huang, H Minges… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Catalytic anti-Markovnikov oxidation of alkene feedstocks could simplify synthetic routes to
many important molecules and solve a long-standing challenge in chemistry. Here we report …

Artificial metalloenzymes based on the biotin–streptavidin technology: challenges and opportunities

T Heinisch, TR Ward - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The biotin–streptavidin technology offers an attractive means to engineer
artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs). Initiated over 50 years ago by Bayer and Wilchek, the biotin …

Recent advances in biotechnological applications of alcohol dehydrogenases

YG Zheng, HH Yin, DF Yu, X Chen, XL Tang… - Applied microbiology …, 2017 - Springer
Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs), which belong to the oxidoreductase superfamily, catalyze
the interconversion between alcohols and aldehydes or ketones with high stereoselectivity …