Some Key Topics in Chemistry and Biochemistry for Biotechnologists

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Munishwar Nath Gupta taught chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology at IIT Delhi [1975-2018]. A Ph.D [Biochemistry] from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was followed by post-doc at University of Minnesota [USA]; MIT [USA]; UTC [France] and Lund University [Sweden]. He is a fellow of both National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. His previous edited/co-edited books include Thermostability of Enzymes [Springer]; Interfaces of Nano-materials and Microbes [CRC]; Three Phase Partitioning [Elsevier] and Structure and Intrinsic disorder in Enzymology [Elsevier]. He is currently series editor for ‘’Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology’’ [Elsevier]. He has published 300 scientific articles with current h-index of 60.