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Enzyme Biocatalysis

Principles and Applications

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Andrés Illanes

    1. School of Biochemical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

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  • Presents an updated panorama of enzyme biocatalysis
  • Reviews the current practices of enzyme production with special emphasis on large-scale operations
  • Provides a kinetically based approach to enzyme reactor design and optimization
  • Presents a deep insight into enzyme inactivation mechanisms and its applications for modelling enzyme performance under operating conditions
  • Illustrates the present scenario of enzyme biocatalysis with selected case studies, related mainly to applications in organic synthesis

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrés Illanes
    Pages 1-56

  3. Enzyme Production

    • Andrés Illanes
    Pages 57-106

  4. Homogeneous Enzyme Kinetics

    • Andrés Illanes, Claudia Altamirano, Lorena Wilson
    Pages 107-153

  5. Heterogeneous Enzyme Kinetics

    • Andrés Illanes, Roberto Fernández-Lafuente, José M. Guisán, Lorena Wilson
    Pages 155-203

  6. Enzyme Reactors

    • Andrés Illanes, Claudia Altamirano
    Pages 205-251

  7. Study Cases of Enzymatic Processes

    • Sonia Barberis, Fanny Guzmán, Andrés Illanes, Josep López-Santín, Lorena Wilson, Gregorio Álvaro et al.
    Pages 253-378

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 379-391
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About this book

This book was written with the purpose of providing a sound basis for the design of enzymatic reactions based on kinetic principles, but also to give an updated vision of the potentials and limitations of biocatalysis, especially with respect to recent app- cations in processes of organic synthesis. The ?rst ?ve chapters are structured in the form of a textbook, going from the basic principles of enzyme structure and fu- tion to reactor design for homogeneous systems with soluble enzymes and hete- geneous systems with immobilized enzymes. The last chapter of the book is divided into six sections that represent illustrative case studies of biocatalytic processes of industrial relevance or potential, written by experts in the respective ?elds. We sincerely hope that this book will represent an element in the toolbox of gr- uate students in applied biology and chemical and biochemical engineering and also of undergraduate students with formal training in organic chemistry, biochemistry, thermodynamics and chemical reaction kinetics. Beyond that, the book pretends also to illustrate the potential of biocatalytic processes with case studies in the ?eld of organic synthesis, which we hope will be of interest for the academia and prof- sionals involved in R&D&I. If some of our young readers are encouraged to engage or persevere in their work in biocatalysis this will certainly be our more precious reward.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Biochemical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

    Andrés Illanes

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