Developments and Advances in Biocatalysis of Chiral Drugs
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 1534
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biocatalysis; chiral separation; enzyme; enzyme engineering; green chemistry; immobilization; kinetic resolution; support material modification
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, an intensively studied area of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences has been the development of new biotechnological methods for obtaining enantiomers of chiral drugs with the use of enzymes as catalysts. The application of biocatalysis, which is an alternative to chemical synthesis for achieving enantiomers of chiral compounds, has received large interest from research groups and the industry. Biocatalysis does not require drastic reaction conditions, making it safer for the environment, which is consistent with the philosophy of "green chemistry". Due to the possibility of omissions of many steps of enantioselective synthesis, biocatalytic reactions give an opportunity to simplify the procedures for receiving chiral drugs.
This Special Issue, “Developments and Advances in Biocatalysis of Chiral Drugs” aims to publish high-quality manuscripts, with a special emphasis on the development of new biocatalysis approaches for creating chiral drugs, as well as the design of new chiral drugs and their applications. Since IJMS is a journal of molecular science, pure clinical or model studies will not be suitable for this Special Issue. However, clinical or pure model submissions combined with biomolecular experiments are welcome.
Dr. Tomasz Siodmiak
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biocatalysis
- biotechnology
- chiral drugs
- chiral separation
- enzyme
- enzyme engineering
- green chemistry
- immobilization
- support material
- kinetic resolution
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