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Large-scale enzymatic conversions in non-aqueous media

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Enzymatic Reactions in Organic Media

Abstract

During the last decade the organic chemist’s and the chemical industry’s perception of enzymes has changed dramatically. The traditional view was based on the conventional wisdom that the use of enzymes is restricted to aqueous media and temperatures close to ambient. Moreover, enzymes were perceived as being very expensive, fragile catalysts that present substantial problems in handling and downstream processing, i.e. hardly the sort of reagent one would consider for use in industrial organic synthesis. Conventional wisdom also held that enzymes are very substrate- and reaction-specific (the one enzyme—one reaction—one substrate paradigm).

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Sheldon, R.A. (1996). Large-scale enzymatic conversions in non-aqueous media. In: Koskinen, A.M.P., Klibanov, A.M. (eds) Enzymatic Reactions in Organic Media. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0611-5_10

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