Chemoenzymatic Catalysis: Cooperativity Enables Opportunity
Logan Hessefort, Lauren J. Harstad, Kayla R. Merker, Lauren P.T. Ramos, Kyle F. Biegasiewicz
Abstract
The application of enzymes in synthetic organic chemistry has emerged as a powerful means to generate molecular complexity in a highly selective, efficient, and sustainable manner. While enzymes have increasingly been incorporated into synthetic sequences for numerous academic and industrial applications on their own and in sequential processes, their utility in cooperative catalysis with small molecule catalytic platforms has recently drawn increased attention across the field of organic synthesis. In this review, we present a selection of notable accomplishments in cooperative chemoenzymatic catalysis and provide a perspective on its future directions.