Biorenewable Chemicals

Chemicals created by living things are referred to as biorenewable chemicals and are utilised as chemical industry feedstock. The petroleum-based carbon feedstocks that currently power the chemical industry might be replaced with solar-powered biorenewable compounds. The chemical business may be driven by the large variety of enzymes found in biological organisms and the potential for synthetic biology to alter these enzymes to develop novel chemical activities. A key building block for the creation of new molecules is the polyketide biosynthetic pathway, which produces compounds made up of repeating alkyl chain units with the potential for a wide variety of functional groups at the different carbon atoms.