Biocatalysis in Green Solvents. Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Foreword
3. Non-conventional biocatalysis: From organic solvents to Green Solvents
4. Synthesis and characterization of Ionic Liquids
5. Biocatalysis and Green Metrics in Sustainable Chemistry
6. Ionic liquids in biocatalytic organic synthesis
7. Ionic liquids in protein refolding
8. Stability and Stabilization of biocatalyst by ILs
9. Improved Biocatalysts for Green processes
10. Clean Biocatalysis in Sponge-Like Ionic Liquids
11. Oxidoreductases in ionic liquids and Deep eutectic Solvents (DESs) for organic chemistry
12. Potential roles for ionic liquid assisted biocatalysis in a low carbon future
13. Biocatalysis in ABS systems based on ILs
14. Biotransformations of carbohydrates in ILs
15. Biocatalysis in biomass derived solvents
16. Ionic liquids for biomass biotransformations
17. Biocatalysis in sub and supercritical fluids
18. Supported ionic liquids for biocatalysis
19. Biocatalytic processes in ionic liquids/supercritical carbon dioxide biphasic systems
20. Enzymatic membrane reactors and non-conventional solvents
21. Ionic Liquids for Biopolymer Extraction and Processing
22. Application of Ionic Liquids in Pharmaceutics and Medicine
23. Industrial application of Ionic Liquids

Authors

Pedro Lozano Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Murcia in Murcia, Murcia, Murcia, Spain. Dr. Pedro Lozano is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Murcia in Murcia, Spain. Born in Ceuti, Spain in 1961, Prof. Lozano received his PhD at the University of Murcia in 1988. Between 1990 and 1991, he spent two years at the Centre de Bioing�nierie Gilbert Durand, Toulouse (France) as a post-doctoral fellow. In 1993, he returned to the University of Murcia (Spain) as Lecturer in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, later being promoted to Full Professor in 2004. His research activity has always been related to enzyme technology in ionic liquids and supercritical fluids. In 2002, he published a paper on the first continuous green biocatalytic reactor, based on the combination of enzymes with ILs and scCO2 able to directly provide pure products.