Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals in organic and medicinal chemistry, this text illuminates the black box of enzyme-catalyzed reactions by showing how enzymes are simply highly efficient organic chemists. Enzyme-catalyzed reactions are essential for the design of enzyme inhibitors in the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries, and of growing importance for process development in the chemical and biotechnology industries. Following a general introduction to the role of ...
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Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals in organic and medicinal chemistry, this text illuminates the black box of enzyme-catalyzed reactions by showing how enzymes are simply highly efficient organic chemists. Enzyme-catalyzed reactions are essential for the design of enzyme inhibitors in the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries, and of growing importance for process development in the chemical and biotechnology industries. Following a general introduction to the role of enzymes as catalysts, each chapter describes the organic transformations. The compilation includes a number of drawings to illustrate structures and mechanisms, and focuses on one of two examples of enzymes that catalyze the particular chemistry for that transformation.
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