Technical application of biological principles in asymmetric catalysis.

摘要: The production of enantiopure compounds is becoming increasingly important to the chemical and biotechnological industries. Bioorganic transformations look set meet this demand due their inherently regio- stereoselective natures. In sense, biosynthesis needs be viewed as "chemistry by nature". Biological principles that have been optimized over thousands years experience a new renaissance when used for technical asymmetric catalysis; however, able use them, we need an appropriate technology: reaction engineering. Indeed, various biological are already being applied in synthesis without scientific community at large aware this.