• Biomimetic synthesis is an area of organic chemical synthesis that is specifically biologically inspired. The term encompasses both the testing of a "biogenetic...
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    cobalamin (vitamin B12), an essential cofactor in cellular metabolism. Biomimetic synthesis is a branch of organic chemistry which aims at designing and preparing...
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    Biomimetics or biomimicry is the emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems. The terms...
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    Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Early efforts towards its synthesis were directed at a misassigned structure featuring a cis- rather than...
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    usually the result of enzymatic modification after translation (protein synthesis). For example, phosphorylation of serine by kinases and dephosphorylation...
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    glucose to pyruvate by cellular respiration); or anabolic—the building up (synthesis) of compounds (such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids)...
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    catalytic properties. Some enzymes are used commercially, for example, in the synthesis of antibiotics. Some household products use enzymes to speed up chemical...
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    synthesis Artificial gene synthesis Biomimetic synthesis Bioretrosynthesis Biosynthesis Chemosynthesis Convergent synthesis Custom peptide synthesis Direct...
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    synthesis Artificial gene synthesis Biomimetic synthesis Bioretrosynthesis Biosynthesis Chemosynthesis Convergent synthesis Custom peptide synthesis Direct...
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    Endiandric acid C (category Total synthesis)
    C. Nicolaou's biomimetic synthesis of the endiandric acid cascade that enzymes aided this reaction in the biosynthesis. The biomimetic series determined...
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    Cocaine (section Synthesis)
    first synthesis and elucidation of the structure of the cocaine molecule was by Richard Willstätter in 1898. It was the first biomimetic synthesis of an...
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    Harald (2005). Asymmetric organocatalysis – from biomimetic concepts to applications in asymmetric synthesis (1. ed., 2. reprint. ed.). Weinheim: Wiley-VCH...
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    In 1828, Friedrich Wöhler published a paper on his serendipitous urea synthesis from potassium cyanate and ammonium sulfate; some regarded that as a direct...
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    the Diels-Alder reaction in the context of total synthesis. The Rice synthesis follows a biomimetic route and is the most efficient reported to date....
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    synthesis Artificial gene synthesis Biomimetic synthesis Bioretrosynthesis Biosynthesis Chemosynthesis Convergent synthesis Custom peptide synthesis Direct...
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  • get ideas for engineering solutions. In chemistry, a biomimetic synthesis is a chemical synthesis inspired by biochemical processes. Another, more recent...
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    consists of an elaborate network of interconnected pathways that enable the synthesis and breakdown of molecules (anabolism and catabolism). Each metabolic...
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    Protecting group (category Chemical synthesis)
    contrast biomimetic synthesis does not employ protective groups. As an alternative, Baran presented a novel protective-group free synthesis of the compound...
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    Meldrum FC, McMillan DG (June 2018). "Enzymatically-controlled biomimetic synthesis of titania/protein hybrid thin films" (PDF). Journal of Materials...
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    products". In Lanzotti, Virginia (ed.). Plant-Derived Natural Products: Synthesis, Function, and Application. Springer. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-387-85497-7. Baell...
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    Other areas of biochemistry include the genetic code (DNA, RNA), protein synthesis, cell membrane transport, and signal transduction. In a sense, the study...
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    enzymes during either transcription or DNA replication. Following 5'-3' synthesis of the backbone, individual nitrogenous bases are capable of interacting...
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    application in the total synthesis of steroids. Alongside Edward Charles Dodds, Robinson had also been involved in the original synthesis of diethylstilboestrol...
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  • first persons to achieve the total synthesis of yohimbine. He pioneered in what is today called biomimetic synthesis. He was the first to identify squalene...
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    Vancomycin (category Total synthesis)
    15428. PMID 8663196. Kohli RM, Walsh CT, Burkart MD (August 2002). "Biomimetic synthesis and optimization of cyclic peptide antibiotics". Nature. 418 (6898):...
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    the latter case, including some very short and very high yielding biomimetic synthesis examples (of Roth and Acton, and Haynes et al., 3 steps, 30% yield)...
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  • doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)82404-1. Bender, SL; Budhu, RJ (1991). "Biomimetic synthesis of enantiomerically pure D-myo-inositol derivatives". J. Am. Chem...
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    (including its regulation) by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product that enables it to produce end products,...
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    Carpanone (category Total synthesis)
    design and synthesis is considered a classic in total synthesis, and one that highlights the power of biomimetic synthesis. The first total synthesis of carpanone...
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    as its biosynthetic pathway, which led to the development of the biomimetic synthesis of erysodienone. The biosynthesis of erysodienone involves a key...
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