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Across the Board: Brent H. Shanks
Author(s) -
Shanks Brent H.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201500227
Subject(s) - biocatalysis , sustainability , catalysis , chemistry , biochemical engineering , nanotechnology , engineering , organic chemistry , materials science , biology , ecology , reaction mechanism
In this series of articles, the board members of ChemSusChem discuss recent research that they consider of exceptional quality and importance for sustainability. In this contribution, Prof. Brent H. Shanks discusses the importance of biobased platform technologies for chemical syntheses. One of these technologies includes the appropriate design of biobased catalysts (i.e., enzymes), their incorporation into host systems such as microbes. As well as how the biocatalysis systems can be coupled with chemical catalysis.