Novel catalyst enhances oxygen evolution reaction in acidic conditions to boost green hydrogen production
In a significant advancement for renewable energy technologies, a new catalyst has been developed that dramatically improves ...
AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics
Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...
New protocol streamlines preparation of alcohol-containing synthetic intermediates and bioactive compounds
Given that alcohol is the most frequent functional group found in bioactive natural products and marketed drugs, and is a ...
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Efficient Hydrogenolysis of C–O Bond over Pd/P-TiO
State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, ...
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Catalytic Conversion of Furans to Aromatics over Ga-MFI Zeotypes with Varying Gallium Content
demonstrating a near-40-fold increase in benzene production when increasing the gallium content from 0.5 to 8.6 wt %, while a further increase to 11 wt % leads to a decrease in benzene production due ...
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Wide Transition-State Ensemble as Key Component for Enzyme Catalysis
Given that proteins display large ensembles of conformations, unique transition states would pose a huge entropic bottleneck for enzyme catalysis. To shed light on this question, we studied the nature ...
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Powerful chemoenzymatic catalysis for concurrent biomass valorization and waste upcycling
Currently, furfural is produced from agroindustrial waste such as corncob and oat hull via acid-catalyzed xylan ... and carcinogenic properties. Chemical catalysis offers advantages such as ...