Lipase mediated synthesis of sugar fatty acid esters by Gumel, A.M., Annuar, M.S.M., Heidelberg, T., Chisti, Y.

“…Lipase mediated synthesis has important advantages over conventional chemical synthesis of sugar esters. Lipase catalyzed synthesis is typically carried out in organic solvents having a low water activity to drive the reaction towards synthesis instead of towards ester hydrolysis. …”
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Mechanical stability of biobased food packaging material by Badmus, Abdurrahman Adeleye, Gauri, Samla, Ali, Nor Ikrami, Gomes, Chandima

“…Polymers produced by classical chemical synthesis using renewable biobased monomers such as polylactic acid and biopolyester. …”
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Colchicine Prodrugs and Codrugs: Chemistry and Bioactivities by Ghawanmeh, Abdullah A., K. F., Chong, Sarkar, Shaheen M., Muntaz, Abu Bakar, Rizafizah, Othaman, Rozida, M. Khalid

“…This review paper focuses on colchicine nanoformulation, chemical synthesis of colchicine prodrugs and codrugs with different linkers, highlights linker chemical nature and biological activity of synthesized compounds. …”
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Heterogeneous Metal Catalysts for Oxidation Reactions by Ali, Md. Eaqub, Rahman, Md. Motiar, Sarkar, Shaheen M., Abd Hamid, Sharifah Bee

“…Oxidation reactions may be considered as the heart of chemical synthesis. However, the indiscriminate uses of harsh and corrosive chemicals in this endeavor are threating to the ecosystems, public health, and terrestrial, aquatic, and aerial flora and fauna. …”
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Modular engineering for microbial production of carotenoids by Li, Cheng, Swofford, Charles A., Sinskey, Anthony J.

“…Microbial production of carotenoids provides an attractive alternative to the negative environmental impacts and cost of chemical synthesis or direct extraction from plants. Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approaches have been widely utilized to reconstruct and optimize pathways for carotenoid overproduction in microorganisms. …”
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Impact of Synthetic Genomics on the Threat of Bioterrorism with Viral Agents by Collett, Marc

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Hydride Reduction by a Sodium Hydride-Iodide Composite by Too, Pei Chui, Chan, Guo Hao, Tnay, Ya Lin, Hirao, Hajime, Chiba, Shunsuke

“…Sodium hydride (NaH) is widely used as a Brønsted base in chemical synthesis and reacts with various Brønsted acids, whereas it rarely behaves as a reducing reagent through delivery of the hydride to polar π electrophiles. …”
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A new method of N to C sequential ligation using thioacid capture ligation and native chemical ligation by Hou, Wen, Liu, Lei, Zhang, Xiaohong, Liu, Chuanfa

“…Sequential peptide ligation strategy becomes more and more important in large protein or long peptides chemical synthesis due to the limited peptide/protein size obtained by solid phase synthesis of individual peptides or even one-step peptide ligation. …”
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Surface-induced synthesis and self-assembly of metal suprastructures by Li, Shaozhou, Huang, Xiao, Li, Hai, Cai, Hui, Gan, Chee Lip, Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang, Zhang, Hua

“…This work not only demonstrates that the surface energy of glassware can affect chemical synthesis, but also provides an interesting approach to the shape-controlled synthesis of novel self-assembled suprastructures of AgNPs, which could be potentially used as synthesis templates, drug vessels, and microreactors.…”
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Mechanism of diol dehydration by a promiscuous radical‐SAM enzyme homologue of the antiviral enzyme viperin (RSAD2) by Honarmand Ebrahimi, K, Rowbotham, J, McCullagh, J, James, W

“…These compounds have largely been produced via multistep chemical synthesis and an enzyme with the ability to catalyse removal of 3´‐deoxy group from different nucleotides has yet to be described. …”

Ivermectin metabolites reduce Anopheles survival by Kobylinski, KC, Tipthara, P, Wamaket, N, Chainarin, S, Kullasakboonsri, R, Sriwichai, P, Phasomkusolsil, S, Hanboonkunupakarn, B, Jittamala, P, Gemmell, R, Boyle, J, Wrigley, S, Steele, J, White, NJ, Tarning, J

“…The three primary ivermectin metabolites in humans (i.e., M1 (3″-O-demethyl ivermectin), M3 (4-hydroxymethyl ivermectin), and M6 (3″-O-demethyl, 4-hydroxymethyl ivermectin) were obtained by chemical synthesis or bacterial modification/metabolism. …”

A simple and cost-effective method for producing small interfering RNAs with high efficacy. by Sohail, M, Doran, G, Riedemann, J, Macaulay, V, Southern, E

“…This approach is expensive due to the cost of chemical synthesis of RNAs. We report a technically simple, quick and cost-effective method for the production of siRNAs that makes use of in vitro transcription and deoxyribozyme digestion of the transcripts to produce the desired sequence and length. …”

Soil biotransformation of thiodiglycol, the hydrolysis product of mustard gas: understanding the factors governing remediation of mustard gas contaminated soil. by Li, H, Muir, R, McFarlane, N, Soilleux, R, Yu, X, Thompson, I, Jackman, SA

“…Thiodiglycol (TDG) is both the precursor for chemical synthesis of mustard gas and the product of mustard gas hydrolysis. …”

Potential applications of lignin and its derivatives from lignocellulosic biomass – a review by Md Salleh, Madihah, Mohd Noor, Rohaya, Yahya, Adibah, Abd-Aziz, Suraini, Hussin, Huszalina

“…The extracted lignin has high potential to be converted into monomeric aromatic derivatives that could serve as a building block for chemical synthesis, biomaterials, bio-oils, wastewater treatment and food industry. …”

Metal sulfides and their lithium storage properties by Liu, Weiling

“…To investigate the effect of how the amount of sulfide ion in the stoichiometry of an iron sulfide compound affects its lithium storage properties, pyrrhotite Fe1-xS and pyrite FeS2 with good purity have been successfully synthesized via a solution-based chemical synthesis method and their electrochemical properties were characterized. …”
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The development of Pd-based bimetallic nano-catalysts in green chemistry by Liao, F

“…This thesis focuses on the catalytic transformations of biomass or biomass derived molecules into valuable small alcohols such as methanol, ethanol, and propanol, which can be used as both fuel and chemical synthesis intermediates.</p> <p>Novel catalysts with high activity and selectivity toward target products are desperately required in the development of renewable chemical synthesis routes. …”

Aerosol-Assisted Plasma Deposition of Hydrophobic Polycations Makes Surfaces Highly Antimicrobial by Liu, Harris, Kim, Yoojeong, Mello, Kerrianne, Lovaasen, John, Shah, Apoorva, Rice, Norman, Pappas, Daphne, Yim, Jacqueline H., Klibanov, Alexander M

“…The currently used multistep chemical synthesis for making surfaces antimicrobial by attaching to them hydrophobic polycations is replaced herein by an aerosol-assisted plasma deposition procedure. …”
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β-Carbon activation of saturated carboxylic esters through N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis by Xu, Jianfeng, Zhu, Tingshun, Leong, Wendy Wen Yi, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Fu, Zhenqian

“…We reasoned that the horizons of chemical synthesis could be greatly expanded if the typically inert β-carbons of saturated esters could be used as nucleophiles. …”
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Patterned self assembled nanomagnetic arrays for massive data storage applications by Ramanujan, R. V.

“…Patterned magnetic nanostructures have been fabricated using chemical synthesis techniques. Template assisted assembly of cobalt and cobalt ferrite "nanobowls" in a periodic arrangement with sufficiently high coercivity values for data storage applications has been achieved using colloidal crystal templating. …”
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Reductive functionalization of carboxamides : a recent update by Ong, Derek Yiren, Chen, Jiahua, Chiba, Shunsuke

“…Carboxamides including lactams are readily available and bench-stable chemical feedstock, and thus their use in chemical synthesis for production of valuable compounds would be an attractive choice in various synthetic endeavors. …”
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