1. Introduction: Impact and potential of enzyme-catalysed processes in biotechnology. 2. History of microbial and enzymatic biotransformations. 3. Chirality - definition & measurement 4. Basic biochemical reactions, structure and function of enzymes. 5. Biocatalytic retrosynthesis of asymmetric molecules 6. Enzyme kinetics: mechanisms, calculations, multisubstrate reactions. 7. Reactors for biotransformations. |
