Biocatalysis

EL Bell, W Finnigan, SP France, AP Green… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biocatalysis has become an important aspect of modern organic synthesis, both in
academia and across the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Its success has been …

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 …

Carbon redirection via tunable Fenton-like reactions under nanoconfinement toward sustainable water treatment

X Gao, Z Yang, W Zhang, B Pan - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
The ongoing pattern shift in water treatment from pollution control to energy recovery
challenges the energy-intensive chemical oxidation processes that have been developed for …

Biocatalysis making waves in organic chemistry

U Hanefeld, F Hollmann, CE Paul - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has an enormous impact on chemical synthesis. The waves in which
biocatalysis has developed, and in doing so changed our perception of what organic …

Shortening synthetic routes to small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients employing biocatalytic methods

S Simić, E Zukić, L Schmermund, K Faber… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis, using enzymes for organic synthesis, has emerged as powerful tool for the
synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The first industrial biocatalytic …

Biocatalysis as key to sustainable industrial chemistry

AR Alcántara, P Domínguez de María… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The role and power of biocatalysis in sustainable chemistry has been continuously brought
forward step by step to its present outstanding position. The problem‐solving capabilities of …

Power of biocatalysis for organic synthesis

CK Winkler, JH Schrittwieser, W Kroutil - ACS central science, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis, using defined enzymes for organic transformations, has become a common
tool in organic synthesis, which is also frequently applied in industry. The generally high …

(Chemo) biocatalytic upgrading of biobased furanic platforms to chemicals, fuels, and materials: a comprehensive review

N Li, MH Zong - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Biobased furans, such as furfural, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, and 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid,
are recognized as the top-value platform chemicals in the valorization of biomass to …

The Hitchhiker's guide to biocatalysis: recent advances in the use of enzymes in organic synthesis

RA Sheldon, D Brady, ML Bode - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are excellent catalysts that are increasingly being used in industry and academia.
This perspective is primarily aimed at synthetic organic chemists with limited experience …

The evolution and evolvability of photosystem II

T Oliver, TD Kim, JP Trinugroho… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Photosystem II is the water-oxidizing and O2-evolving enzyme of photosynthesis. How and
when this remarkable enzyme arose are fundamental questions in the history of life that …