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Such processes have existed for many thousands of years in the manufacture of cheese from milk and in the brewing of beer from barley. In the former process the enzyme chymosin catalyses the hydrolysis of one peptide bond in casein, causing the milk to clot, and in the latter the amylases from malted barley (the diastases of Peyen and Persoz) catalyse the hydrolysis of starch. While these remain important processes the application of enzymes such as these to industrial chemistry is quite recent, dating back only to about 1960. 

Oral administration of 42 to rats resulted in extensive reduction to trimethoprim106. The 1,4-di-N-oxide olaquindox (49), a substance used as a growth promotor in cattle breeding, pig husbandry and poultry farming, has been shown to be converted to a limited extent to the 4-mono-N-oxide in rats164, and compound 46 was readily reduced to N,N-diallylmelamine both in vivo and in vitro109. The anerobic reduction, in the presence of xanthine oxidase, of a series of purine N-oxides, such as adenine 1-N-oxide or guanine 

3-N-oxide, has been pointed out by Stohrer and Brown165. This metabolic step is considered a detoxification mechanism166 for this class of azaheterocycles, many of which exert oncogenic actions84. 

The OH-group in the E-configuration of acetophenone oximes has been proposed to be more accessible than that in the sterically hindered Z-conformers, and thus may be more 

These findings were substantiated by in vitro experiments. Thus, rat liver cytosol has been detected to contain sulfotransferase (EC 2.8.2.1) activity which catalyzed 

N—O-sulfation of minoxidil in the presence of adenosine-3 -phospho-5 -phosphosulfate (PAPS) (equation 24). The enzyme-synthetized product was identical to authentic N—O-sulfate with respect to chromatographic behavior and mass spectral characteristics and was split to minoxidil when treated with sulfatase183. The pH optimum for minoxidil N—O-sulfation was about 8.0. Enzyme activity in crude preparations was maintained for several months during storage at —76°C, while activity of partially purified enzyme was lost under these conditions183. 

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The conventional electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide tends to give formic acid as the major product, which can be obtained with a 90% current efficiency using, for example, indium, tin, or mercury cathodes. Being able to convert CO2 initially to formates or formaldehyde is in itself significant. In our direct oxidation liquid feed fuel cell, varied oxygenates such as formaldehyde, formic acid and methyl formate, dimethoxymethane, trimethoxymethane, trioxane, and dimethyl carbonate are all useful fuels. At the same time, they can also be readily reduced further to methyl alcohol by varied chemical or enzymatic processes. 

Steroids are synthetic products of cholesterol [57-88-5]. The chemical stmcture of a steroid hormone is determined by sequential enzymatic processing of the cholesterol molecule. Steroid products differ among steroid-secreting glands because of differences in enzyme processing, eg, the production of estrogen by the ovary requires enzymatic steps that do not occur in the adrenal cortex. 

Enzymatic Process. Chemically synthesized substrates can be converted to the corresponding amino acids by the catalytic action of an enzyme or the microbial cells as an enzyme source, t - Alanine production from L-aspartic acid, L-aspartic acid production from fumaric acid, L-cysteine production from DL-2-aminothiazoline-4-catboxyhc acid, D-phenylglycine (and D-/> -hydtoxyphenylglycine) production from DL-phenyUiydantoin (and DL-/)-hydroxyphenylhydantoin), and L-tryptophan production from indole and DL-serine have been in operation as commercial processes. Some of the other processes shown in Table 10 are at a technical level high enough to be useful for commercial production (24). Representative chemical reactions used ia the enzymatic process are shown ia Figure 6. 

AH cephalosporins found in nature (Tables 1 and 2) have the D-a-aminoadipic acid 7-acyl side chain (21). AH of these compounds can be classified as having rather low specific activity. A substantial amount of the early work in the cephalosporin area was unsuccessfiiHy directed toward replacing the aminoadipic acid side chain or modifying it appropriately by fermentation or enzymatic processes (6,22). A milestone ia the development of cephalosporins occurred in 1960 with the discovery of a practical chemical process to remove the side chain to afford 7-ACA (1) (1). Several related processes were subsequendy developed (22,23). The ready avaHabHity of 7-ACA opened the way to thousands of new semisynthetic cephalosporins. The cephalosporin stmcture offers more opportunities for chemical modification than does that of penicillins There are two side chains that especiaHy lend themselves to chemical manipulation the 7-acylamino and 3-acetoxymethyl substituents. 

Industrial appHcations of enzymology form an important branch of biotechnology. Enzymatic processes enable natural raw materials to be upgraded and turned into finished products. They offer alternative ways of making products previously made only by conventional chemical processes. 

The detergent industry is the largest user of industrial enzymes. The starch industry, the first significant user of enzymes, developed special symps that could not be made by means of conventional chemical hydrolysis. These were the first products made entirely by enzymatic processes. Materials such as textiles and leather can be produced in a more rational way when using enzyme technology. Eoodstuffs and components of animal feed can be produced by enzymatic processes that require less energy, less equipment, or fewer chemicals compared with traditional techniques. 

This section emphasizes cell cultures and microbial and enzymatic processes and excludes medical, animal, and agricultural engineering systems. Engineering aspec ts of biological waste treatment are covered in Sec. 25. 

This is an essential topic for biochemists and biochemical engineers. Biochemical reactions involve both cellular and enzymatic processes, and the principal differences between biochemical and chemical reactions lie in the nature of the living systems. Biochemists and biochemical engineers can stabilize most organic substances in processes involving microorganisms. 

By using imidazole catalysis, it is possible to get a better understanding of the active forms that water takes in enzymatic processes Thus, at low concentrations m the presence of an enzyme, the water may not be fully hydrogen bonded and therefore more reactive [61] The rate of hydrolysis of p-nitrotrifluoroacetanilide in acetonitrile shows a strong dependence on water concentration at low levels in the presence of imidazole The imidazolium complex is the approximate transition state (equation 60)... 

Another important enzymatic process in the production of 7-ADCA, for use in the production of semi-synthetic cephalosporins, is the hydrolysis of 7-aminocephalosporanic add (7-ACA) by the enzyme acetyl esterase. This process, again using immobilisation techniques, is illustrated in Figure 6.16. Hie deacylated product can be used, for example, as an intermediate in the production of the important oral cephalosporin cefuroxime. We will return to cephalosporin antibiotics later in this chapter. 

In section 6.6.1, we described how enzymatic methods have come to dominate the production of the important intermediates used in the manufacture of semi-synthetic -lactams. In principle, the hydrolytic penicillin acylases may be used in the reverse direction to add acyl groups to 6-APA. For example, a two-step enzymatic process has been described for the preparation of ampiciilin (D-(-)-a-aminobenzylpenidllin structure shown in Figure 6.17). 

SAQ 8.7 The product value at 100% capadty will now be (total cost of production + 7 to 15% ROD, ie 16.04 to 1654 + 1.12 to 2.48. So the minimum product value will be 17.16 per kg of L-phenylalanine and the maximum product value 19.02 per kg of L-phenylalanine. It is rattier difficult to say whether this fictitious process would survive or could compete. Actual data are absolutely necessary. On the other hand this exercise gives us a better understanding of process economics and can also be used to compare a fermentative process for the production of amino adds with, for example, a chemo-enzymatic process. Calculate the return on investment over a 15 year period for an amino add fermentation, based on the following data and assumptions. Production capadty = 500 tonnes per annum Selling price of product = 50 kg Cost price of product = 24.5 kg 1 Capital = 40 million Taxes = 50%. Assumptions Cost of dealer discount, distribution and freight = 20% total sales Startup costs = 10% of capital Working capital = 25% of net sales Administration plus R and D costs = 12.5% of net sales. 

Figure A8.8 Enzymatic processes for the production of optically active a-amlno adds via resolution of the racemic hydantolns.

The list of possibilities you could have come up with is quite extensive. You might, for example, have suggested that enzymatic processes may be used to resolve the racemic mixture. 

Another interesting biooxygenation reaction with alkenes, recently identified, represents an enzymatic equivalent to an ozonolysis. While only studied on nonchiral molecules, so far, this cleavage of an alkene into two aldehydes under scores the diversity of functional group interconversions possible by enzymatic processes [121,122]. 

Metal polysulfido complexes have attracted much interest not only from the viewpoint of fundamental chemistry but also because of their potential for applications. Various types of metal polysulfido complexes have been reported as shown in Fig. 1. The diversity of the structures results from the nature of sulfur atoms which can adopt a variety of coordination environments (mainly two- and three-coordination) and form catenated structures with various chain lengths. On the other hand, transition metal polysulfides have attracted interest as catalysts and intermediates in enzymatic processes and in catalytic reactions of industrial importance such as the desulfurization of oil and coal. In addition, there has been much interest in the use of metal polysulfido complexes as precursors for metal-sulfur clusters. The chemistry of metal polysulfido complexes has been studied extensively, and many reviews have been published [1-10]. 

Substrate analogs which promise to be particularly good active-site probes are those which are conformationally restricted. One key feature of enzymatic processes is that when a substrate is bound to an enzyme, probably only one of the many possible conformations of the substrate molecule is assumed. Consequently, before a detailed mechanism for an enzymatic process can be formulated, the preferred conformations of each of the enzyme-bound substrates must be known. ... 

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