Cover Picture: Combining Metabolic Engineering and Electrocatalysis: Application to the Production of Polyamides from Sugar (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 7/2016)

Innovative pathways for the production of biorenewable chemicals from sugars are generated by streamlining bio‐ and chemical catalysis. In their Communication on page 2368 ff., Z. Shao, J.‐P. Tessonnier, et al. describe the electrocatalytic hydrogenation of muconic acid that had been produced from glucose using metabolically engineered yeast to 3‐hexenedioic acid in the presence of all cells and biogenic impurities. The hydrogenation product was employed as a monomer for the synthesis of unsaturated nylon‐6,6.