Stereoselective Biocatalysis
Publisher: CRC
Published: January 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 946
ISBN-13: 9780824782825
Subjects: Biochemistry; Polymer chemistry; Science/Mathematics; Chemistry - Industrial & Technical; Science; Stereoisomers; Chemistry - Analytic; Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial; Applied Sciences; Biotechnology; Enzymes; Synthesis
First sentence: Optically pure D- and L- -amino acids are of increasing interest as precursors for semi-synthetic antibiotics, new herbicides, insecticides, and physiologically active peptides, and as chiral building blocks for chemical synthesis.
Description: "This reference explains the specific ways that the process of enzyme-catalyzed reactions - biocatalysis - outperforms chemical catalysis: by utilizing ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure to minimize problems of isomerization, racemization, and epimerization; by employing microbial cells and enzymes that can be immobilized and reused over many cycles; and by "overex-pressing" enzymes for greater economy and efficiency.".

"Containing over 4100 references and more than 1000 tables, equations, drawings, and micrographs, Stereoselective Biocatalysis is a resource for organic and medicinal chemists; pharmacologists; chemical engineers; biochemists; microbiologists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.