Where chemocatalysis meets biocatalysis: In water

H Gröger, F Gallou, BH Lipshutz - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chemoenzymatic catalysis, by definition, involves the merging of sequential reactions using
both chemocatalysis and biocatalysis, typically in a single reaction vessel. A major …

Titanosilicate epoxidation catalysts: a review of challenges and opportunities

V Smeets, EM Gaigneaux, DP Debecker - ChemCatChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Epoxidation reactions are tremendously important for modern chemistry, as they lead to
series of highly useful bulk and fine chemicals, monomers, and intermediates for organic …

Multifunctional, Hybrid Materials Design via Spray‐Drying: Much more than Just Drying

S Wintzheimer, L Luthardt, KLA Cao, I Imaz… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Spray‐drying is a popular and well‐known “drying tool” for engineers. This perspective
highlights that, beyond this application, spray‐drying is a very interesting and powerful tool …

Repertoire of computationally designed peroxygenases for enantiodivergent C–H oxyfunctionalization reactions

P Gómez de Santos, I Mateljak, MD Hoang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The generation of enantiodivergent biocatalysts for C–H oxyfunctionalizations is ever more
important in modern synthetic chemistry. Here, we have applied the FuncLib algorithm …

Manipulating the microenvironment of surfactant-encapsulated Pt nanoparticles to promote activity and selectivity

G Li, N Marinkovic, B Wang, MR Komarneni… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Precise tuning of the local environment surrounding the active site is key to engineering
catalytic materials. Here, we have explored a nanoconfined catalytic system that exhibits …

Continuous flow-mode synthesis of (chiral) amines with transaminase: a strategic biocatalytic approach to essential building blocks

HM Arango, L van den Biggelaar… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral amines are essential building blocks to manufacture a plethora of valuable
compounds, including active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). It is estimated that about half …

Progress and perspective of enzyme immobilization on zeolite crystal materials

H Zhang, Z Jiang, Q Xia, D Zhou - Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Zeolites play irreplaceable roles in the industrial catalysis field due to their diverse pore
structures and special physical and chemical properties, which are also one type of the most …

Efficient cascade conversion of starch to gluconic acid by a chemoenzymatic system with co-immobilized Au nanoparticles and enzymes

J Gao, Z Wang, R Guo, Y Hu, X Dong, Q Shi… - Catalysis Science & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A chemoenzymatic cascade system (GA&GOx@ Au–SiO2) was fabricated by immobilizing
Au nanoparticles onto mesoporous silica nanoparticles (SiO2) followed by the co …

A versatile chemoenzymatic nanoreactor that mimics NAD (P) H oxidase for the in situ regeneration of cofactors

A Rodriguez‐Abetxuko, A Reifs… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we report a multifunctional chemoenzymatic nanoreactor (NanoNOx) for the glucose‐
controlled regeneration of natural and artificial nicotinamide cofactors. NanoNOx are built of …

Hybrid chemoenzymatic heterogeneous catalyst prepared in one step from zeolite nanocrystals and enzyme–polyelectrolyte complexes

M Van der Verren, V Smeets, A Vander Straeten… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of inorganic heterogeneous catalysts and enzymes, in so-called hybrid
chemoenzymatic heterogeneous catalysts (HCEHCs), is an attractive strategy to effectively …