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SUBMITTER: Zhang W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7206127 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200507 1
En route to a bio-based chemical industry, the conversion of fatty acids into building blocks is of particular interest. Enzymatic routes, occurring under mild conditions and excelling by intrinsic selectivity, are particularly attractive. Here we report photoenzymatic cascade reactions to transform unsaturated fatty acids into enantiomerically pure secondary fatty alcohols. In a first step the C=C-double bond is stereoselectively hydrated using oleate hydratases from Lactobacillus reuteri or St ...[more]