Scientists from DSM and Kaneka discuss various techniques in this roundtable moderated by Patricia Van Arnum. This article is part of PharmTech's supplement "API Synthesis and Formulation 2009." ...

Enzymatic catalysis offers pharma manufacturers a way to implement the Principles of Green Chemistry. Pressures on drug manufacturers to reduce development timelines and costs while also providing ...

As biocatalysts, enzymes can make many chemical processes "greener" and open up promising opportunities for various industries from pharmaceuticals to environmental technology. New analytical methods, ...

With the changing era, businesses across industries are transitioning towards more sustainable future. In this scenario, lowering one’s carbon footprint and identifying sustainable alternatives are ...

Over the past ten years, scientific and technological advances have established biocatalysis as a practical and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional metallo- and organocatalysis in ...

Biocatalysis is a process that utilizes natural substances, especially, enzymes, to enhance the speed of a chemical reaction. Scientists have stated that enzymes are responsible for the catalysis of ...

Pharmaceutical process chemists use resolutions, or the separation of enantiomers from racemic mixtures, more than 60% of the time to generate chiral compounds. Among resolution methods, ...

The ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR) recently updated their Biocatalysis Guide, an easy reference to the most common enzyme classes used in the pharmaceutical industry ...

Martinez, director of Pfizer’s Biocatalysis Center of Excellence, played a key role in making the starting material for a main fragment of nirmatrelvir using enzymes. “As a company, we all felt that ...