The plastic crisis requires drastic measures, especially for the plastics' end-of-life. Mixed
plastic fractions are currently difficult to recycle, but microbial metabolism might open new …

Biocatalysis is an enabling technology adding to organic oxidation chemistry. Especially the
high selectivity of enzymatic oxidation coevally operating under mild conditions and not …

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 …

During the last decades, biocatalysis became of increasing importance for chemical and
pharmaceutical industries. Regarding regio-and stereospecificity, enzymes have shown to …

Flavoenzymes are colourful oxidoreductases that catalyze a large variety of different types of
reactions. Flavoenzymes have been extensively studied for their structural and mechanistic …

Green chemistry aims to minimize the environmental hazards of chemical processes and
their products. Ever since its introduction by Anastas,[1] this principle has inspired …

Redox enzymes have tremendous potential as catalysts for preparative organic chemistry.
Their usually high selectivity, paired with their catalytic efficiency under mild reaction …

Indigo is one of the oldest textile dyes and was originally prepared from plant material.
Nowadays, indigo is chemically synthesized at a large scale to satisfy the demand for dyeing …

Are cytochrome P450 enzymes powerful industrial biocatalysts? Next to market demands,
well-defined enzyme functionalities and process parameters allow generalizations on the …

Marine ecosystems are home to bacteria which are exposed to a wide variety of
environmental conditions, such as extremes in temperature, salinity, nutrient availability and …