“…(O'Brien and Herschlag, 1999;Copley, 2003;Bornscheuer and Kazlauskas, 2004;Khersonsky et al, 2006;Hult and Berglund, 2007). For example, hydrolase can catalyze the formation of C-C (Branneby et al, 2002;Svedendahl et al, 2005;Xu et al, 2007;Liu et al, 2008;Li et al, 2008), C-N (Cai et al, 2004;Torre et al, 2004;Wu et al, 2005Wu et al, , 2006Rodrigo et al, 2009), C-O (Kitazume et al, 1986 and C-S (Carlqvist et al, 2005;Lou et al, 2008) through Michael addition, Markovnikov addition and aldol reaction; arylmalonate decarboxylase can catalyze aldol additions (Terao et al, 2007); racemase can catalyze PLP-dependent aldol additions (Seebeck and Hilvert, 2003). Recently, Herfried Griengl et al successfully reported the first biocatalytic asymmetric Henry reaction in the presence of hydroxynitrile lyase from hevea brasiliensis in two phases.…”