Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

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 …

Biocatalytic oxidation reactions: a chemist's perspective

JJ Dong, E Fernández‐Fueyo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidation chemistry using enzymes is approaching maturity and practical applicability in
organic synthesis. Oxidoreductases (enzymes catalysing redox reactions) enable chemists …

Selective aerobic oxidation reactions using a combination of photocatalytic water oxidation and enzymatic oxyfunctionalizations

W Zhang, E Fernández-Fueyo, Y Ni, M Van Schie… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Peroxygenases offer an attractive means to address challenges in selective
oxyfunctionalization chemistry. Despite this, their application in synthetic chemistry remains …

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases in biotechnology and synthetic biology

VB Urlacher, M Girhard - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
Cytochromes P450 (P450 or CYP) are heme-containing enzymes that catalyze the
introduction of one atom of molecular oxygen into nonactivated C–H bonds, often in a regio …

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 …

Alcohol dehydrogenases as catalysts in organic synthesis

AS de Miranda, CDF Milagre, F Hollmann - Frontiers in Catalysis, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) have become important catalysts for stereoselective
oxidation and reduction reactions of alcohols, aldehydes and ketones. The aim of this …

Whole‐cell cascade biotransformations for one‐pot multistep organic synthesis

S Wu, Z Li - ChemCatChem, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Performing one‐pot multi‐catalysis reactions is a revolutionary tool for multistep synthesis,
representing a fast‐developing theme in catalysis field. To develop cascade reactions …

The beauty of biocatalysis: sustainable synthesis of ingredients in cosmetics

RS Heath, RE Ruscoe, NJ Turner - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2015 up to July 2021 The market for cosmetics is consumer driven and the desire
for green, sustainable and natural ingredients is increasing. The use of isolated enzymes …

Water-soluble anthraquinone photocatalysts enable methanol-driven enzymatic halogenation and hydroxylation reactions

B Yuan, D Mahor, Q Fei, R Wever, M Alcalde… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Peroxyzymes simply use H2O2 as a cosubstrate to oxidize a broad range of inert C–H
bonds. The lability of many peroxyzymes against H2O2 can be addressed by a controlled …