B generally refers to the use of enzymes or whole cells as catalysts for synthetic chemistry. Because of its connection with reduced energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste generation, biocatalysis is increasingly used in pharmaceutical, chemical, food, energy, and agricultural industries. Compared to chemical catalysis, one of the biggest advantages of biocatalysis is that bioc...

Biocatalysis has become an important aspect of modern organic synthesis, both in academia and across the chemical pharmaceutical industries. Its success been largely due to a rapid expansion range reactions accessible, made possible by advanced tools for enzyme discovery coupled with high-throughput laboratory evolution techniques biocatalyst optimization. A wide tailor-made enzymes high effici...

Modern biocatalysis is developing new and precise tools to improve a wide range of production processes, which reduce energy and raw material consumption and generate less waste and toxic side-products. Biocatalysis is also achieving new advances in environmental fields, from enzymatic bioremediation to the synthesis of renewable and clean energies and biochemical cleaning of 'dirty' fossil fue...

Enzymes and whole cells are being increasingly applied in research and industry, but the adoption of biocatalysis relies strongly on useful scientific literature. Unfortunately, too many published papers lack essential information needed to reproduce and understand the results. Here, members of the scientific committee of the European Federation of Biotechnology Section on Applied Biocatalysis ...

In a world of dwindling fossil-based energy, global air pollution and warming, biocatalysis may be a perfect problem-solver. It has the potential to procure sustainable raw materials and energy from biomass, and enables chiral and highly functionalized compounds to be produced ecologically for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. At ZHAW Waedenswil on June 20, 2016, the Competence Center f...

Flow biocatalysis: where to start? This tutorial review aims guide and inspire new-comers the field boost potential of flow biocatalysis.

Biocatalysis, which can be performed by whole cells and isolated enzymes, has become a topic of public interest for its potential use in the chemical industry manufacturing, monitoring, waste management [...]

An overview of asymmetric synthesis in continuous flow and microreactors is presented in this review. Applications of homogeneous and heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis as well as biocatalysis in flow are discussed.