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Enzymes in Organic Synthesis: Aldol Reactions as a Route to Unusual Sugars

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Enzymes have been increasingly used as catalysts in practical organic synthesis. This talk illustrates several new practical syntheses of biologically relevant carbohydrates using aldolases as catalysts and summarizes the status of several generic problems in this area.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA

    C.-H. Wong

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  1. Institut für Biotechnologie, ETH, Hönggerberg, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland

    Armin Fiechter

  2. Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita-shi, Osaka, 565, Japan

    Hirosuke Okada

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 37235, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Robert D. Tanner

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Wong, CH. (1989). Enzymes in Organic Synthesis: Aldol Reactions as a Route to Unusual Sugars. In: Fiechter, A., Okada, H., Tanner, R.D. (eds) Bioproducts and Bioprocesses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74227-9_11

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