Biocatalysis as Key to Sustainable Industrial Chemistry

Andrés R Alcántara; Pablo Domínguez de María; Jennifer A Littlechild; Martin Schürmann; Roger A Sheldon; Roland Wohlgemuth

doi:10.1002/cssc.202200709

Biocatalysis as Key to Sustainable Industrial Chemistry

ChemSusChem. 2022 May 6;15(9):e202200709. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202200709. Epub 2022 Apr 21.

Authors

Andrés R Alcántara¹, Pablo Domínguez de María², Jennifer A Littlechild³, Martin Schürmann⁴, Roger A Sheldon⁵, Roland Wohlgemuth^{6

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sciences (QUICIFARM), Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), 28040-, Madrid, Spain.
² Sustainable Momentum, SL, Av. Ansite 3, 4-6, 35011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Is., Spain.
³ Henry Wellcome Building for Biocatalysis, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QD, United Kingdom.
⁴ InnoSyn B.V. Urmonderbaan 22, 6167RD, Geleen, The Netherlands.
⁵ Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁶ Institute of Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology, Lodz University of Technology, 90-537, Lodz, Poland.
⁷ Swiss Coordination Committee for Biotechnology, 8021, Zurich, Switzerland.

PMID: 35445559
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202200709

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover is the Working Group Sustainable Chemistry of the European Society of Applied Biocatalysis (ESAB). The image shows the significant contributions of Biocatalysis to science, industry, society, and environment as a technology of first choice for Sustainable Chemistry in the 21st century. The Perspective itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.202102709.

MeSH terms

Biocatalysis
Industry*