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ReviewChemical science2020

The Hitchhiker's guide to biocatalysis: recent advances in the use of enzymes in organic synthesis.

Roger A Sheldon, Dean Brady, Moira L Bode

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Review in Chemical science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers.

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86citing papers in PubMed
16.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed, 293 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Roger A SheldonMolecular Sciences Institute , School of Chemistry , University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , South Africa . Email: Roger.Sheldon@wits.ac.za.ORCID 0000-0003-1041-316X
Dean BradyMolecular Sciences Institute , School of Chemistry , University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , South Africa . Email: Roger.Sheldon@wits.ac.za.ORCID 0000-0002-4815-1030
Moira L BodeMolecular Sciences Institute , School of Chemistry , University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , South Africa . Email: Roger.Sheldon@wits.ac.za.ORCID 0000-0002-4153-5584
University of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enzymes are excellent catalysts that are increasingly being used in industry and academia. This perspective is primarily aimed at synthetic organic chemists with limited experience using enzymes and provides a general and practical guide to enzymes and their synthetic potential, with particular focus on recent applications.

Identifiers

PMID32206264
PMCPMC7069372
OpenAlexW3006003358

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