The present article comprehensively reviews the macromolecular synthesis using enzymes
as catalysts. Among the six main classes of enzymes, the three classes, oxidoreductases …

Ring opening polymerization (ROP) of lactams is a highly efficient and versatile method to
synthesize polyamides. Within the last ten years, significant advances in polymerization …

Polymeric materials, natural and unnatural, are indispensable to the modern society. They
are widely used from everyday life usages as commodity materials to industry and …

From reviews to the first edtion:" Bornscheuer and Kazlauskas have set out, and succeeded,
in producing a definitive manual on hydrolytic enzymes (especially lipases, esterases, and …

Biocatalysis has expanded rapidly in the last decades with the discoveries of highly
stereoselective enzymes with broad substrate specificity. A new frontier for biocatalysis is …

During the last three decades the use of hydrolases for the catalysis of environmentally
friendly organic processes under mild reaction conditions has been well documented …

In consequence of their biological effects, conformationally constrained carbocyclic β-amino
acids have generated great interest among synthetic and medicinal chemists in the past 2 …

1. Introduction....................................................................... 5832 2. Kinetic resolutions.....................
............................................ 5833 2.1. Enzymes acting on C–N bonds …

Chiral nitrogenated compounds are highly attractive compounds because of their
importance in agrochemicals, fine chemicals, and pharmaceuticals but also due to their …

DNA family shuffling was used to create chimeric lipase B proteins with improved activity
toward the hydrolysis of diethyl 3‐(3′, 4′‐dichlorophenyl) glutarate (DDG). Three …