Biotransformations by microorganisms, organisms and enzymes: State of art

The amount of papers in the literature describing reactions catalyzed by en zymes and microorganisms as a method for obtaining enantiomerically pure co mpounds is increasing considerably. The usefulness of these biocatalysts in organic chemistry is now well documented and has greatly increased in the last decade. This review de scribes the most relevant recent papers on the subject and also some very successful applications of the enzymes and micro organisms as biocatalysts in synthetic organic chemistry from the 1996 lite rature up till now.