Future directions in alcohol dehydrogenase-catalyzed reactions

Future directions in alcohol dehydrogenase-catalyzed reactions 

Department of Chemistry, University of Fiorida, Gainesviiie, FL, USA Abstract 

Regardless of the specific end-use, biocatalytic studies can be roughly divided into two phases discovery and development. The major goal of the discovery phase is idenhfying a suitable enzyme that solves the chemical problem, in this 

The fact that relatively few commercial processes currently utilize dehydrogenases, in spite of the high level of interest at the research and bench scales, argues that progress is needed in this area before these enzymes can be considered to be a normal part of chemical synthesis. Many of these advances will come by partnerships with genomics, nanotechnology and computational approaches. In the discovery area, key questions for the future are  

Additional questions for the process development area include  

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