Biocatalysis: From Discovery to Application

by W.-D. Fessner (Editor)

Overview

Catalytic procedures are clearly the most economical means to effect selective processes in organic synthesis. For the preparation of enantiomerically pure compounds, the utilization of enzymes is particularly attractive because of high selectivities and mild, environmentally benign reaction conditions. Taking advantage of advances in molecular biology, unique new enzymes are now readily accessible in quantity with properties that are amenable to modification on demand. This volume brings together leading contributors from the forefront of this exciting technology. In their authoritative and timely reviews they cover the state-of-the-art of biocatalysis from the discovery of novel enzymes - by modern screening, evolutionary or immunological approaches - through immobilization techniques for technical processes, to their use in the asymmetric synthesis of important target compounds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540669708
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/15/2000
Series:	Springer Desktop Editions in Chemistry
Edition description:	1st ed. 1999. 2nd printing 2000
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Screening for Novel Enzymes.- Superior Biocatalysts by Directed Evolution.- Catalytic Antibodies for Organic Synthesis.- Immobilized Enzymes: Methods and Applications.- Phospholipases as Synthetic Catalysts.- Biocatalytic Approaches for the Synthesis of Enantiopure Epoxides.- Oxynitrilases: From Cyanogenesis to Asymmetric Synthesis.- Glycosyltransferase-Catalyzed Synthesis of Non-Natural Oligosaccharides.