Chapter 7 - Peptide nanocatalysts

Abstract

Enantiopure products have growing demands in diverse fields, ranging from pharmaceuticals to agriculture, and have a direct impact on health, quality of life, and economy. This indicates a huge scope and importance for developing a novel catalyst that furnishes products in high efficiency and delivers significantly higher enantiomeric purity. Asymmetric methodologies are now widely accepted as a reliable and efficient way to access enantiorich compounds. Peptide-based rational catalyst design utilizes basic fundamental knowledge of catalysis, often combined with structural information. Therefore understanding the underlying mechanism of a catalysis process is important.