The E factor at 30: a passion for pollution prevention

RA Sheldon - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The introduction of the E Factor in 1992 focussed attention on the problem of waste
generation, defined as everything but the desired product, in chemicals manufacture and …

Biocatalysis making waves in organic chemistry

U Hanefeld, F Hollmann, CE Paul - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has an enormous impact on chemical synthesis. The waves in which
biocatalysis has developed, and in doing so changed our perception of what organic …

Multifunctional biocatalyst for conjugate reduction and reductive amination

TW Thorpe, JR Marshall, V Harawa, RE Ruscoe… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral amine diastereomers are ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, yet their
preparation often relies on low-efficiency multi-step synthesis. These valuable compounds …

Biocatalytic reductive aminations with NAD (P) H-dependent enzymes: enzyme discovery, engineering and synthetic applications

B Yuan, D Yang, G Qu, NJ Turner, Z Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral amines are pivotal building blocks for the pharmaceutical industry. Asymmetric
reductive amination is one of the most efficient and atom economic methodologies for the …

Biocatalytic reduction reactions from a chemist's perspective

F Hollmann, DJ Opperman… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reductions play a key role in organic synthesis, producing chiral products with new
functionalities. Enzymes can catalyse such reactions with exquisite stereo‐, regio‐and …

Chiral synthesis of LSD1 inhibitor GSK2879552 enabled by directed evolution of an imine reductase

M Schober, C MacDermaid, AA Ollis, S Chang… - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
Imine reductases catalyse the reductive amination of aldehydes or ketones with amines to
produce chiral amines—a key transformation in the preparation of fine chemicals and active …

Toward effective electrocatalytic C–N coupling for the synthesis of organic nitrogenous compounds using CO2 and biomass as carbon sources

H Jiang, X Wu, H Zhang, Q Yan, H Li, T Ma, S Yang - SusMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermochemical conversion of fossil resources into fuels, chemicals, and materials has
rapidly increased atmospheric CO2 levels, hindering global efforts toward achieving carbon …

Discovery of an imine reductase for reductive amination of carbonyl compounds with sterically challenging amines

FF Chen, XF He, XX Zhu, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of structurally diverse amines is of fundamental significance in the
pharmaceutical industry due to the ubiquitous presence of amine motifs in biologically active …

Religious‐based negative attitudes towards LGBTQ people among healthcare, social care and social work students and professionals: A review of the international …

S Westwood - Health & Social Care in the Community, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is a dearth of research on how negative religious attitudes towards LGBTQ people
inform professional practice. This paper reports on a scoping review of 70 selected studies …

Reductive aminations by imine reductases: from milligrams to tons

AK Gilio, TW Thorpe, N Turner, G Grogan - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis of secondary and tertiary amines through the reductive amination of carbonyl
compounds is one of the most significant reactions in synthetic chemistry. Asymmetric …