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Chemical Science

The Hitchhiker's guide to biocatalysis: recent advances in the use of enzymes in organic synthesis

Roger A. Sheldon, ORCID logo *ab   Dean Brady ORCID logo a  and  Moira L. Bode ORCID logo a  

* Corresponding authors

a Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
E-mail: Roger.Sheldon@wits.ac.za

b Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Abstract

Enzymes are excellent catalysts that are increasingly being used in industry and academia. This perspective is primarily aimed at synthetic organic chemists with limited experience using enzymes and provides a general and practical guide to enzymes and their synthetic potential, with particular focus on recent applications.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SC05746C
Article type
Perspective
Submitted
12 nov. 2019
Accepted
12 févr. 2020
First published
13 févr. 2020
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 2587-2605

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The Hitchhiker's guide to biocatalysis: recent advances in the use of enzymes in organic synthesis

R. A. Sheldon, D. Brady and M. L. Bode, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 2587 DOI: 10.1039/C9SC05746C

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