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Green Solvents for Biocatalysis

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Green Solvents I

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In order to comply with environmental regulations, the agrochemical, the pharmaceutical, and other biotech-based industries are impelled to implement sustainable industrial technologies. To achieve this, the use of biocatalysts (enzymes or cells), leading to high chemo-, regio-, and stereoselectivities under mild conditions, as well as green nonaqueous solvents required to solubilize substrates that are poorly soluble in water, appear as good solutions. In this chapter we will focus on different attempts to combine the properties of green solvents with the advantages of using enzymes for developing biocatalytic processes.

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The authors would like to thank the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, for financial support: postdoctoral grants SFRH/BPD/64160/2009 and SFRH/BPD/41175/2007 awarded to M.P.C. Marques and N.M.T. Lourenço, respectively; contracts under the program Ciência2007 awarded to P. Fernandes and C.C.C.R. de Carvalho.

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    Marco P. C. Marques, Nuno M. T. Lourenço, Pedro Fernandes & Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho

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    Marco P. C. Marques, Nuno M. T. Lourenço, Pedro Fernandes & Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho

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Marques, M.P.C., Lourenço, N.M.T., Fernandes, P., de Carvalho, C.C.C.R. (2012). Green Solvents for Biocatalysis. In: Mohammad, A. (eds) Green Solvents I. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1712-1_3

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