Umfassend, prägnant,leserfreundlich: Die aktualisierte 5. Auflage bietet 20% mehr Inhalt. Mehr als 200 herausragende Wissenschaftler aus aller Welt haben über 15000 Einträge zu allen Aspekten der Biokatalyse, heterogenen und homogenen Katalyse zusammengetragen.

Boy Cornils has worked at the former Hoechst AG in Germany, where he was the director of the research. He is the editor of several bestselling titles.

Wolfgang A. Herrmann is President of the Technical University of Munich and has received several awards for his work in organometallic chemistry, like the Otto-Bayer Medal, the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, the Werner-Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and many more. He has authored a plethora of publications and is the editor of numerous bestselling books.

Jianhe Xu is Professor at the East China University in Shanghai. His research interest lies in the area of biocatalysis and enzyme engineering and he has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with 68 being indexed by Science Citation Index and 43 by Engineering Index.

Horst-Werner Zanthoff received his Ph.D. and habilitated in Technical Chemistry at Ruhr-University Bochum. Since 2000 he is scientific researcher at Evonik Industries AG and presently leads the Competence Center of Oxidation Catalysis at Evonik Industries Process Technology and Engineering department. He is author and Co-author of around 80 publications and 20 patents. His present research interests are in the area of heterogeneous catalysis and high-throughput experimentation.