Practical Biotransformations

摘要

The application of enzymes is an elegant solution to numerous problems in synthetic organic chemistry, in particular for generating enantiopure compounds, for example pharmaceuticals. However, for chemists who are inexperienced in this area the vastness and complexity of the subject of biotransformations is often seen as a reason to prefer a "classical" non-enzymatic strategy for the synthetic route. The book Practical Biotransformations-A Beginner's Guide by Gideon Grogan, in the Postgraduate Chemistry Series, is aimed specifically in this direction, to enable the reader to enter this increasingly important field of chemistry.