Scientists are continually striving to find environmentally-friendly alternatives to heavy metal industrial catalysts in catalysis research. Enzymes, as biocatalysts, fulfill this challenge by enabling biotransformations, while remaining robust, stable and efficient. Enzyme selectivity is also a key characteristic required by researchers.
The 'Next Steps in Enzymatic Catalysis’ white paper discusses how inline spectroscopy was used to monitor enzyme-catalyzed reactions in real-time, enabling researchers to understand reaction mechanisms and determine the kinetic parameters of these biotransformations.