Fessner W.-D., Anthonsen T. (ed.) Modern Biocatalysis: Stereoselective and Environmentally Friendly Reactions

Wiley-VCH, 2009. — 400 p.This reference covers the wide and rapidly growing field of biocatalysis. It combines complementary expertise from such areas as microbiology, enzymology, molecular biology structural biology and organic chemistry, thus highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the subject.
With its special focus on progress and new developments towards environmentally beneficial reactions with high levels of selectivity for the production of key compound classes, this book will enlighten both chemists and biologists as to the advances and opportunities existing in enzyme catalysis.List of Contributors.
Fluorescence Assays for Biotransformation
Immobilization as a Tool for Improving Enzymes
Continuous-flow Microchannel Reactors with Surface-Immobilized biocatalysts
Activity and Stability of Proteases in Hydrophilic Solvents
Importance of Enzyme Formulation for the Activity and Enantioselectivity of Lipases in Organic Solvents
Direct Esterification with Dry Mycelia of Molds: a (Stereo) selective, Mild and Efficient Method for Obtaining Structurally Diverse Esters
Factors Affecting Enantioselectivity: Allosteric Effects
Kinetic Resolution of Sec-alcohol in Non-conventional Media
Strategies for the biocatalyst Lipophilization of Phenolic Antioxidants
Biocatalysis Applied to the Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogs
Efficient Fructooligosaccharide Synthesis with a Fructosyltransferase from Aspergillus aculeatus
Hydantoin Racemase: the Key Enzyme for the Production of Optically Pure x-Amino Acids
Chemo-enzymatic Deracemization Methods
Nitrilases from Filamentous Fungi
Nitrilase- and Nitrile Hydratase-catalyzed Enantioselective Preparation of Non-proteinogenic Amino Acids
Nitrilases in the Enantioselective Synthesis of x-Hydroxycarboxylic Acids
UF-Membrane bioreactors for Kinetics Characterization of Nitrile Hydratase-Amidase-catalyzed reactions: a Short Survey
Enzymes Catalyzing C-C bond Formation for the Synthesis of Monosaccharide Analogs
Novel Strategies in Aldolase-catalyzed Synthesis of Iminosugars
Biocatalytic Asymmetric Oxidations with Oxygen
Second Generation Baeyer-Villiger Biocatalysts