Synthetic biology Chemistry

Some esters of inorganic acids, such as dimethyl sulfate, are used as reagents in synthetic organic chemistry. Certain naturally occuning alkyl phosphates play an important role in biological processes. 

K. C. Nicolaou was bom in 1946 in Cyprus. He studied chemistry at the University of London (B.Sc., 1969 Ph.D., 1972), Columbia University (postdoctoral research) and Harvard University (postdoctoral research). Between 1976 and 1989 he was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently holds joint appointments at The Scripps Research Institute, where he is the Darlene Shiley Professor of Chemistry and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, and at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Chemistry. His research interests span the areas of synthetic organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistiy, molecular design, and the chemistry and biology of natural products. 

Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, 615-8510 Kyoto, Japan E-mail nakatani sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp E-mail saito sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp... 

PELLETIER Alkaloids Chemical and Biological Perspectives SESSLER WEGHORN Expanded Contracted and Isomeric Porphyrins WONG WHITESIDES Enzymes in Synthetic Organic Chemistry... 

Curvularia lunata to introduce the 11 (3-hydroxy group directly, helped to revive interest in the application of biological catalysis to problems in synthetic organic chemistry. The momentum was continued by Charles Sih, J. Bryan Jones, George Whitesides and others, until, by the mid-1980s, biocatalysis... 

Schneider, W., and B. Schwyn (1987), "The Hydrolysis of Iron in Synthetic, Biological and Aquatic Media", in W. Stumm, Ed., Aquatic Surface Chemistry, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 167-196. 

Surprisingly little preparative work has been done on the anodic oxidation of enols and enolates, although the resulting a-carbonyl radicals are important intermediates in synthetic organic chemistry and biological systems [94]. Due to... 

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