Green Chemistry Blog

Issue 12 of Green Chemistry is now available to read online.

The front cover this month (pictured left) features work by Peter C. K. Lau and co-workers from Quebec, Canada. In their work they engineer sinapic acid decarboxylaseas an alternative to chemistry-based or thermal decarboxylation to produce canolol from canola meal.

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Antioxidant canolol production from a renewable feedstock via an engineered decarboxylase
Krista L. Morley, Stephan Grosse, Hannes Leisch and Peter C. K. Lau  
Green Chem., 2013, 15, 3312-3317, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40748A

The inside front cover this month (pictured right) features work by Joerg Schrittwieser, Frank Hollmann and co-workers from Deltf, The Netherlands. In their work they show how the one-pot combination of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and palladium nanoparticle (Pd-NP) catalysis provides access to aromatic 1,2-amino alcohols in high yields and excellent optical purities.

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One-pot combination of enzyme and Pd nanoparticle catalysis for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure 1,2-amino alcohols
Joerg H. Schrittwieser, Francesca Coccia, Selin Kara, Barbara Grischek, Wolfgang Kroutil, Nicola d’Alessandro and Frank Hollmann  
Green Chem., 2013, 15, 3318-3331, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC41666F

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