Preface to Special Issue on 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.202200640

Preface to Special Issue on Biocatalysis as Key to Sustainable Industrial Chemistry

ChemSusChem. 2022 May 6;15(9):e202200640. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202200640.

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 Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (QUICIFARM), Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), 28040, Madrid, Spain.
² Sustainable Momentum, SL, Av. Ansite 3, 4-6, 35011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
³ Henry Wellcome Building for Biocatalysis Department of 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: 35514198
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202200640

Abstract

In their Editorial for the Special Issue on Biocatalysis as Key to Sustainable Industrial Chemistry, Guest Editors Andrés Alcántara, Pablo Domínguez de María, Jennifer Littlechild, and Roland Wohlgemuth and their co-workers on the European Society of Applied Biocatalysis' (ESAB) Working Group on Sustainable Chemistry Martin Schürmann and Roger Sheldon discuss the Special Issue and the importance of biocatalysis in carrying out cutting-edge industrial chemistry in a sustainable way, as well as the future prospects for the field.

Keywords: biocatalysis; biotechnology; enzymes; green chemistry; industrial chemistry.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Biocatalysis
Biotechnology*
Enzymes
Humans
Industry*

Substances

Enzymes