K.R. Sidhar and His Magic Box

	K.R. Sidhar and His Magic Box Recently a man in the name of K.R. Sridhar had shown to the world his Bloom Box which is the most talked about fuel cell-based energy source of 2010. The project was started about eight years ago with a capital of about $400 million. The media was taken aback by the press conference in Silicon Valley with people like California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of the crowd. The little boxes that is believed to change the world in the future were first used by big companies like FedEx, Google, and others. The whole concept of the boxes are that they are like tiny power plants set in your own backyard. They are mainly run by any fuel source like natural gas, solar energy and others as they are used minimally to create a reaction with oxygen to convert it into electrical energy. Basically the power of the Bloom Box come from the ceramic plates that are piled on top of each other and they produced very clean electricity for your consumption. K.R. Sidhar, who's originally from India, is the face of Bloom Energy, the company that invented the Bloom Box. He was formerly a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona. At the helm of STL, K.R. Sidhar led the group to gather almost $20 million in nationally competed R&D contracts. As an advisor for NASA, K.R. Sidhar also led a team of scientists to develop an equipment so that human could live in Mars. It is through that mission that K.R. was able to conceptualize the now known device he calls Bloom Box. It is quite amazing that this scientist can actually make a unit as large as bread loaf, which can produce electricity that can power an American home. Although this device now is overly hyped, many people are supporting him in his endeavor to promote clean energy that's simple to use, safe and uses common materials. The business of manufacturing these fuel cells that can earn about trillion dollars did come unfazed by skeptics. Their reason is that these fuel cells are so expensive until they can be produced in mass scale. Although Google are already using them in their headquarters, they are not confident enough to try using it in their servers where their investments are holed up. There are also experts that believe that if this company would unveil that their equipment produces much cheaper alternative source, then it can survive the market race. Dr. K.R. Sridhar got his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering with Honors at the University of Madras in India, as well as his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. His Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering was finished in University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Apart from being a businessman, Dr. Sridhar is doing work with K-12 children by inspiring them to enjoy math and science. He is currently residing in Los Gatos, California with his wife and two children.

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Biotransformations in Organic Chemistry

"Biotransformations in Organic Chemistry" by Kurt Faber
A Textbook. Sixth revised and corrected edition
Sрringеr | 2011 | ISBN: 3642173926 9783642173929 9783642173936 | 436 pages | PDF | 5 MB

The point of this textbook is to provide a condensed introduction to this field. It is written from an organic chemist’s viewpoint in order to encourage more ‘pure’ organic chemists of any level to take a deep breath and leap over the gap between the ‘biochemical’ sciences and ‘synthetic organic chemistry’ by persuading them to consider biocatalytic methods as an equivalent tool when they are planning the synthesis of an important target molecule.

Contents
1 Introduction and Background Information
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Common Prejudices Against Enzymes
1.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Biocatalysts
1.3.1 Advantages of Biocatalysts
1.3.2 Disadvantages of Biocatalysts
1.3.3 Isolated Enzymes vs. Whole Cell Systems
1.4 Enzyme Properties and Nomenclature
1.4.1 Structural Biology in a Nutshell
1.4.2 Mechanistic Aspects of Enzyme Catalysis
1.4.3 Classification and Nomenclature
1.4.4 Coenzymes
1.4.5 Enzyme Sources
2 Biocatalytic Applications
2.1 Hydrolytic Reactions
2.1.1 Mechanistic and Kinetic Aspects
2.1.2 Hydrolysis of the Amide Bond
2.1.3 Ester Hydrolysis
2.1.4 Hydrolysis and Formation of Phosphate Esters
2.1.5 Hydrolysis of Epoxides
2.1.6 Hydrolysis of Nitriles
2.2 Reduction Reactions
2.2.1 Recycling of Cofactors
2.2.2 Reduction of Aldehydes and Ketones Using Isolated Enzymes
2.2.3 Reduction of Aldehydes and Ketones Using Whole Cells
2.2.4 Reduction of C¼C-Bonds
2.3 Oxidation Reactions
2.3.1 Oxidation of Alcohols and Aldehydes
2.3.2 Oxygenation Reactions
2.3.3 Peroxidation Reactions
2.4 Formation of Carbon–Carbon Bonds
2.4.1 Aldol Reactions
2.4.2 Thiamine-Dependent Acyloin and Benzoin Reactions
2.4.3 Michael-Type Additions
2.5 Addition and Elimination Reactions
2.5.1 Cyanohydrin Formation
2.5.2 Addition of Water
2.5.3 Addition of Ammonia
2.6 Transfer Reactions
2.6.1 Glycosyl Transfer Reactions
2.6.2 Amino Transfer Reactions
2.7 Halogenation and Dehalogenation Reactions
2.7.1 Halogenation
2.7.2 Dehalogenation
3 Special Techniques
3.1 Enzymes in Organic Solvents
3.1.1 Ester Synthesis
3.1.2 Lactone Synthesis
3.1.3 Amide Synthesis
3.1.4 Peptide Synthesis
3.1.5 Peracid Synthesis
3.1.6 Redox Reactions
3.1.7 Medium Engineering
3.2 Immobilization
3.3 Artificial and Modified Enzymes
3.3.1 Artificial Enzyme Mimics
3.3.2 Modified Enzymes
3.3.3 Catalytic Antibodies
4 State of the Art and Outlook
5 Appendix
5.1 Basic Rules for Handling Biocatalysts
5.2 Abbreviations
5.3 Suppliers of Enzymes
5.4 Commonly Used Enzyme Preparations
5.5 Major Culture Collections
5.6 Pathogenic Bacteria and Fungi
Index

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