Enzymes in Action : Green Solutions for Chemical Problems (NATO Science Series 1. Disarmament Technologies, Volume 33)

Binne Zwanenburg, Marian Mikolajczyk and Piotr Kielbasinski

ISBN 10: 0792366964 / ISBN 13: 9780792366966

Published by Kluwer, Netherlands, 2001

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0792366964. Softcover, from closed pharmaceutical company library. Lending record shows this book has been borrowed once only. 458 pages, index, illustrated with charts, tables, equations and diagrams. Covers concepts necessary to understand enzymes in molecular operations. The second section covers heteroatom enzyme chemistry, with considerable attention being given to the use of enzymes in the detoxification of chemical warfare agents and their application in environmental problems. The final section highlights the strategic use of enzymes in organic chemistry. The term 'green chemistry' is appropriate, since enzyme mediated processes occur under mild, environmentally benign conditions, and enzymes enable chemists to perform new chemical operations that would otherwise be difficult to achieve at all. Contents clean, tight and bright.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Enzymes in Action : Green Solutions for Chemical Problems (NATO Science Series 1. Disarmament Technologies, Volume 33)
• Publisher: Kluwer, Netherlands
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792366964
• ISBN 13: 9780792366966
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biochemistry

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Synopsis

Enzymes in Action is a timely survey of a modern development in organic chemistry. It is clear that bioreagents demand that organic chemists think in a different way. If they do so, they will open up new avenues of exciting, new chemistry that will permit problems to be solved in an elegant way.
The first section covers the concepts necessary to understand enzymes in molecular operations. The second section covers heteroatom enzyme chemistry, with considerable attention being given to the use of enzymes in the detoxification of chemical warfare agents and their application in environmental problems. The final section highlights the strategic use of enzymes in organic chemistry.
It is clear that the term `green chemistry' is appropriate, since enzyme mediated processes occur under mild, environmentally benign conditions, and enzymes enable chemists to perform new chemical operations that would otherwise be difficult to achieve at all.