Biocatalysis in Organosulfur Chemistry

Enzymes, which are very efficient catalysts developed by nature to control chemical transformations in vivo, are also capable of adopting non-natural substrates, among them heteroorganic derivatives, and are also capable of working in non-aqueous media. Being intrinsically chiral, enzymes recognize any type of chirality of the substrates. This feature has been utilized for the stereoselective transformations of a variety of organosulfur compounds, resulting in the preparation of chiral non-racemic sulfur products.