Angewandte Chemie (2024): “Engineering a Dual-Functionalized PolyHIPE Resin for Photobiocatalytic Flow Chemistry”

The use of a dual resin for photobiocatalysis, encompassing both a photocatalyst and an immobilized enzyme, brings several challenges including effective immobilization, maintaining photocatalyst and enzyme activity and ensuring sufficient light penetration. However, the benefits such as integrated processes, reusability, easier product separation, and potential for scalability can outweigh these challenges, making dual resin systems […]

OPRD (2024): “Biocatalyst Immobilization and Process Intensification: Production of (S)-Piperazine-2-carboxylic Acid Dihydrochloride”

“Biocatalysis, the use of enzymes to produce chemicals, offers numerous advantages over traditional organic chemistry. The most important ones are the excellent regio-, chemo-, and stereoselectivities that can be achieved, the high functional group tolerance, and the fact that biocatalytic transformations can usually be carried out in pure water. In this work, we have applied […]

4th Alpine Winter Conference

An amazing conference venue in St. Anton am Arlberg and great science with inspiring talk on medicinal chemistry. Related Posts

Green Chemistry (2024): “Rapid production of the anaesthetic mepivacaine through continuous, portable technology”

Local anaesthetics such as mepivacaine are key molecules in the medical sector, so ensuring their supply chain is crucial for every health care system. Rapid production of mepivacaine from readily available commercial reagents and (non-dry) solvents under safe conditions using portable, continuous apparatus could make an impactful difference in underdeveloped countries. In this work, we […]

Reaction Chemistry and Engineering (2023): “Boosting the catalytic performance of a marine yeast in a SpinChem reactor for the synthesis of perillyl alcohol”

A sustainable approach for the reduction of perillaldehyde to perillyl alcohol (POH) through alginate immobilized yeast cell beads has been here developed. The process was optimized in small-scale batch reactions and then scaled up in a rotating bed reactor (SpinChem®), enhancing productivity while reducing catalyst loading thanks to better mass transfer and catalyst/substrate interaction (i.e., […]

Journal of Flow Chemistry (2023): “Perspective on flow biocatalysis: the engine propelling enzymatic reactions”

Well done Ana on this beautifully written perspective! Abstract: Flow biocatalysis has emerged as an empowering tool to boost the potential of enzymatic reactions towards more automatized, sustainable, and generally efficient synthetic processes. In the last fifteen years, the increasing number of biocatalytic transformations carried out in continuous flow exemplified the benefits that this technology […]

Dr. Stefania Gianolio!!

We have a new doctor in the group! Stefania defended her thesis on the 18th of September with an excellent performance. How much she has grown in this journey! Congratulations Stefy and we are very glad you stay with us a little longer 🙂 Related Posts

SCS Fall Meeting 2023

Very strong participation to the SCS Fall meeting here in Bern by the group, with poster presented and Ana winning a prize for the best oral presentation in the Catalysis section!  Very well done you all! Related Posts

Aare boot trip!

Another lovely Aare boot trip with the group, everyone had fun! Related Posts