{"title":"Bioinspired Chiral Peptide–Phosphonium Salt Catalysis: From Enzymes to Cationic Small-Molecule Enzyme Mimics","authors":"Siqiang Fang, Zanjiao Liu, Fan Wang, Tianli Wang","doi":"10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00257","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Enzymes exemplify nature’s catalytic mastery through precise stereochemical control and remarkable rate enhancements, yet their synthetic application remains limited by inherent vulnerabilities: thermal instability, narrow substrate tolerance, and complex engineering requirements. These challenges drive our pursuit of modular organocatalysts that emulate enzymatic cooperativity while combining ease of synthesis, versatility, and high tunability, termed “bioinspired organic small-molecule enzymes”.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00257","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Enzymes exemplify nature’s catalytic mastery through precise stereochemical control and remarkable rate enhancements, yet their synthetic application remains limited by inherent vulnerabilities: thermal instability, narrow substrate tolerance, and complex engineering requirements. These challenges drive our pursuit of modular organocatalysts that emulate enzymatic cooperativity while combining ease of synthesis, versatility, and high tunability, termed “bioinspired organic small-molecule enzymes”.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.