Chemoenzymatic Catalysis: Cooperativity Enables Opportunity
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Unraveling Entropic Rate Acceleration Induced by Solvent Dynamics in Membrane Enzymes
Published on: January 16, 2016
Logan Z Hessefort1, Lauren J Harstad1, Kayla R Merker1
1School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, 551 E University Dr, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.
Abstract:
The application of enzymes in synthetic organic chemistry has emerged as a powerful means to generate molecular complexity in a highly selective, efficient, and sustainable manner. While enzymes have increasingly been incorporated into synthetic sequences for numerous academic and industrial applications on their own and in sequential processes, their utility in cooperative catalysis with small molecule catalytic platforms has recently drawn increased attention across the field of organic synthesis. In this review, we present a selection of notable accomplishments in cooperative chemoenzymatic catalysis and provide a perspective on its future directions.
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