Converging Chemistry and Biology: Chemoenzymatic Cascade Reactions and Biohybrid Catalysts
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Biocatalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 8785
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biocatalysis is highly efficient and comes along with a remarkable selectivity. Large-scale chemical production is challenging due to enzyme stability and downstream processing is often expensive and laborious. Chemocatalysis, homogeneously or heterogeneously catalyzed reactions, has a broad reaction scope but is often limited by diffusion or excess to the active site. Additionally, performing reactions selectively requires laborious catalyst design. The convergence of research fields opens new possibilities for reaction design. Chemoenzymatic cascades combine the best of both worlds: the remarkable selectivity of biocatalysis and the broad reaction scope of chemocatalysis. Combining biocatalysis and chemocatalysis need a precise design of reaction conditions and a proper reaction media. Nonetheless, the advantages of combining both outweigh the efforts of developing the reaction interface: reduced downstream processing and reduced process costs. Furthermore, chemoenzymatic cascades allow the use of instable intermediates, as they are converted quickly in the reaction sequence.
This special issue aims to highlight the recent progress and advances in the field of chemoenzymatic catalysis. This special issue includes, but is not limited to, reaction sequences that consist of at least on enzymatic and one chemical reaction step. The reactions can be performed in a concurrent or in a sequential fashion. Furthermore, new methodologies to achieve compartmentalization for one of the catalytic components as well as new catalysts (e.g., biohybrid catalysts, immobilized enzymes, artificial (metallo)enzymes) that can be used in such reactions are welcome for publications.
Dr. Daniel Friedrich Sauer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- artificial metalloenzymes
- biohybrid catalysis
- enzyme catalysis
- tandem catalysis
- chemoenzymatic catalysis
- carbon-carbon bond formation
- homogeneous catalysis
- cascade reactions
- heterogeneous catalysis
- biphasic systems
- concurrent cascade reactions
- sequential cascade reactions
