Enzymes are excellent catalysts that are increasingly being used in industry and academia.
This perspective is primarily aimed at synthetic organic chemists with limited experience …

Reductions play a key role in organic synthesis, producing chiral products with new
functionalities. Enzymes can catalyse such reactions with exquisite stereo‐, regio‐and …

Light has received increased attention for various chemical reactions but also in
combination with biocatalytic reactions. Because currently only a few enzymatic reactions …

Recent studies of multiple enzyme families collectively called ene-reductases (ERs) have
highlighted potential industrial applications of these biocatalysts in the production of fine and …

Biocatalysis is an established chemical synthesis technology that has by no means been
restricted to research laboratories. The use of enzymes for organic synthesis has evolved …

Despite enormous progress in protein engineering, complemented by bioprocess
engineering, the revolution awaiting the application of biocatalysis in the fine chemical …

The widespread adoption of biocatalysis by industry to perform highly selective chemical
syntheses has been made possible only by the development of highly effective methods in …

The evolution of coenzymes, or their impact on the origin of life, is fundamental for
understanding our own existence. Having established reasonable hypotheses about the …

Flavoprotein monooxygenases create valuable compounds that are of high interest for the
chemical, pharmaceutical, and agrochemical industries, among others. Monooxygenases …

Asymmetric hydrogenation of activated alkenes catalysed by ene-reductases from the old
yellow enzyme family (OYEs) leading to chiral products is of potential interest for industrial …