文档介绍：Biotransformations anic Chemistry
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Kurt Faber
Biotransformations
anic Chemistry
A Textbook
Sixth revised
and corrected edition
Prof. Dr. Kurt Faber
Department of Chemistry
Organic & anic Chemistry
University of Graz
Heinrichstr. 28
A-8010 Graz, Austria
Kurt.******@Uni-
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DOI -3-642-17393-6
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Preface
The use of natural catalysts – enzymes – for the transformation of nonnatural man-
pounds is not at all new: they have been used for more than
100 years, employed either as whole cells, anelles or isolated enzymes [1].
Certainly, the object of most of the early research was totally different from that of
the present day. Thus the elucidation of biochemical pathways and enzyme
mechanisms was the main reason for research several decades