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Enzymes as Catalysts in Organic Synthesis

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Lectures.- Baker's yeast mediated preparation of carbohydrate-like chiral synthons.- Alcohol dehydrogenase catalysed oxidoreduction reactions in organic chemistry.- On the use of viologen dyes for stereospecific bioreduction.- Approaches to chiral building blocks for natural product synthesis.- Use of microorganisms for the resolution of synthetically useful bicyclo[ 3.2.0] hept-2-en-6-ones.- The scope of biocatalysts in organic chemical processing.- Enantioselective synthesis of biologically active cyclopentanoids via enzyme catalysed asymmetric reactions.- Creation of novel chiral synthons with pig liver esterase: application to natural product synthesis and the substrate recognition.- Application of microbial transformations in the total synthesis of natural products.- Approaches to chiral building blocks for natural products synthesis.- Synthesis of enantiomerically pure unnatural compounds via non-biomimetic homoaldol reactions.- Aldolases as catalysts in organic synthesis.- Immobilised redox enzymes and their use as catalysts for fine chemical synthesis.- Applications of microbes and microbial enzymes in environmental control and organic synthesis.- Synthesis of chirally labelled substrates using enzymes.- Synthesis of L-amino acids by isolated enzymes and microorganisms.- Development of an enzyme reactor for food chemistry.- Preparation and properties of semisynthetic flavoenzymes.- The study and redesign of enzymes by protein engineering.- Evolutionary guidance and the engineering of enzymes.- Posters.- Baker's yeast mediated synthesis of protected ?-hydroxyaldehydes.- Enantioselective PLE-catalyzed hydrolysis of meso-dimethyl tetrahydrophthalate on a 100 mole scale - protection of the enzyme by addition of bovine serum albumin.- Enantio- anddiastereoselectivity of microsomal epoxide hydrolase: potential applications to the preparation of non-racemic epoxides and diols.- Efficient enzymic production of enantiomerically pure amino acids.- Biohydroxylation of non activated carbon atoms. A model for the hydroxylation site of the fungus beauveria sulfurescens.- "Sterols Bioconversions in systems with an organic phase".- Second-generation biocatalysis.- Round-table discussions.- List of contributors.

Product details

Assisted by Manfre P Schneider (Editor), Manfred P Schneider (Editor), Manfred P. Schneider (Editor)
Publisher Springer Netherlands
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 25.06.2009
 
EAN 9789027722676
ISBN 978-90-277-2267-6
No. of pages 422
Weight 794 g
Illustrations XIV, 422 p.
Series Nato Science Series C:
NATO Science Series C 177716
Nato Science Series C:
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Organic chemistry

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