Flavoprotein monooxygenases (FPMOs) are single-or two-component enzymes that
catalyze a diverse set of chemo-, regio-and enantioselective oxyfunctionalization reactions …

The use of biocatalysis for industrial synthetic chemistry is on the verge of significant growth.
Biocatalytic processes can now be carried out in organic solvents as well as aqueous …

Enantiomerically pure amino acids, amino alcohols, amines, alcohols, and epoxides play an
increasingly important role as intermediates in the pharmaceutical industry and …

During the last decades a large number of flavin-dependent monooxygenases have been
isolated and studied. This has revealed that flavoprotein monooxygenases are able to …

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 …

Although Escherichia coli has long been recognized as the best-understood living organism,
little was known about its abilities to use aromatic compounds as sole carbon and energy …

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

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

Oxygenases carry out the regio-, stereo-and chemoselective introduction of oxygen in a
tremendous range of organic molecules. This versatility has already been exploited in …