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Light mediated cofactor recycling system in biocatalytic asymmetric reduction of ketone
1Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan. nakamura@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 29, 2002
Abstract:
Reduction of an artificial ketone by Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 proceeds smoothly by the aid of light. The efficiency of the reaction is very high since the coenzyme NADPH is regenerated by using light energy.