Directed Evolution of Selective Enzymes: Catalysts for Organic Chemistry and Biotechnology

Written by one of the most authoritative organic chemists worldwide, this book combines techniques from nature with synthetic organic approaches to bring the best results possible. An overview of current research with a look at future industrial applications.

Spis treści:
GENERAL CONCEPTS
MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL METHODS
HIGH–THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEMS
EMXAMPLES AND RESULTS ACCORDING TO ENZYME TYPE

Nota biograficzna:
Manfred Reetz is Director of the Max Planck institute in Mülheim, Germany, and one of the leading top organic chemists. BA Washington University, MS University of Michigan, PhD University of Göttingen (Prof. Schöllkopf), Postdoc University of Marburg (Prof. R. W. Hoffmann). Afterwards Professor at the Universities of Marburg and Bonn, as well as honorary Professor at University of Bochum. Since 1993 Chairman of the Studiengesellschaft Kohle mbH, and 1995 Vice President of the German Chemical Society.
He has several awards and honors including Chemical Industries Prize (1976), Jacobus van′t Hoff Prize (1977), Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences (1978), Otto–Bayer–Prize (1986), Leibniz Award (1989), Fluka Prize (1997), Nagoya Gold Medal of Organic Chemistry (2000), Hans Herloff Inhoffen Medal (2003), Karl Ziegler Prize (2005). In addition, he is member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, member of Nordrhein–Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, member of the Kuratorium der Alfried Kupp von Bohlen und Halbach foundation and foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
More than 400 publications including one book about Organotitanium Reagents in Organic Synthesis (1986).