Includes bibliographical references and index.

Monomers and macromonomers from renewable resources / Alessandro Gandini -- Enzyme immobilization on layered and nanostructured materials / Ioannis V. Pavlidis ... [et al.] -- Improved immobilization supports for Candida Antarctica Lipase B / Paria Saunders and Jesper Brask -- Enzymatic polymerization of polyester / Nemanja Miletić, Katja Loos, and Richard A. Gross -- Enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of polyamides and polypeptides / H.N. Cheng -- Enzymatic polymerization of vinyl polymers / Frank Hollmann -- Enzymatic polymerization of phenolic monomers / Hiroshi Uyama -- Enzymatic synthesis of polyaniline and other electrically conductive polymers / Rodolfo Cruz-Silva, Paulina Roman, and Jorge Romero -- Enzymatic polymerizations of polysaccharides / Jeroen van der Vlist and Katja Loos -- Polymerases for biosynthesis of storage compounds / Anna Bröker and Alexander Steinbüchel -- Chiral polymers by lipase catalysis / Anja Palmans and Martijn Veld -- Enzymes in the synthesis of block and graft copolymers / Steven Howdle and Andreas Heise -- Biocatalytic polymerization in exotic solvents / Kristofer J. Thurecht and Silvia Villarroya -- Molecular modeling approach to enzymatic polymerization / Gregor Fels and Iris Baum -- Enzymatic polymer modification / Georg M. Guebitz -- Enzymatic polysaccharide degradation / Maricica Munteanu and Helmut Ritter.

'Biocatalyis in Polymer Chemistry' covers all important aspects in the field, from enzymatic monomer synthesis to polymer modification/degradation.