“…Biocatalytic processes continue to remain an area of intensive research, with a desire to develop alternative routes to the organic synthesis of fine chemicals. For example, the annual reports for 2006 and 2007 on biotransformations related to synthetic organic chemistry cite 98 and 87 references, respectively. , Continuous processes have several advantages over batch processes, including very low down-times for the reactors, higher space-time yields, optimized energy consumption, reactions under steady-state conditions, and many more. On the other hand, continuous processes necessitate the use of more expensive equipment, the use of catalysts with a long life, automation to a large degree in instrumentation and process control, and the availability of downstream processing technologies to separate the product from the unreacted reactants, intermediates, and byproducts.…”