What is it about?
Using an oxidative enzyme we produced a chiral building block that can be used for the synthesis of valuable pharmaceuticals
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Why is it important?
The large scale enzymatic synthesis of chiral compounds is of importance for a green economy.
Perspectives
A careful upscaling of enzymatic oxyfunctionalization reactions will increase our knowledge about the usefulness of redox enzymes for synthetic applications.
Professor Willem J.H. van Berkel
Wageningen University
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This page is a summary of: Multigram Scale Enzymatic Synthesis of (R
)-1-(4′-Hydroxyphenyl)ethanol Using Vanillyl Alcohol Oxidase, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, April 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201800197.
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