Issue 16, 2002
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Chemical Communications

Light mediated cofactor recycling system in biocatalytic asymmetric reduction of ketone

Kaoru Nakamura*a  and  Rio Yamanakaa  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
E-mail: nakamura@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Tel: +81 774 38 3201

Abstract

Reduction of an artificial ketone by Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 proceeds smoothly by the aid of light. The efficiency of the reaction is very high since the coenzyme NADPH is regenerated by using light energy.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B203844G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 Apr 2002
Accepted
28 Jun 2002
First published
15 Jul 2002

Chem. Commun., 2002, 1782-1783

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Light mediated cofactor recycling system in biocatalytic asymmetric reduction of ketone

K. Nakamura and R. Yamanaka, Chem. Commun., 2002, 1782 DOI: 10.1039/B203844G

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