
Light feed enzymes create valuable chiral molecules from plant -based construction blocks
CABBI Postdoc Zhengyi Zhang (left) and the leader of the conversion theme Huimin Zhao (right) work in their laboratory at the Carl R. Woese for Genomic Biology Institute at the University of Illinois Urbano-Champaign. Using photocatalysis, his research team developed a more profitable and ecological way to build chiral ketones, valuable chemicals used in agrochemicals,…