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Perovskite-driven solar C2 hydrocarbon synthesis from CO2

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-025-01292-y

Virgil Andrei, Inwhan Roh, Jia-An Lin, Joshua Lee, Yu Shan, Chung-Kuan Lin, Steve Shelton, Erwin Reisner, Peidong Yang

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Reaching out

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-025-01297-7

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Enzymatic catalysis meets radical coupling

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-025-01290-0

Chenyu Wang

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Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01275-5

Christoph Scheurer, Karsten Reuter

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Clarifying cation control

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01284-4

Michael J. Janik

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Molecular basis of activity changes in acid catalysis within nanoconfined water

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-025-01296-8

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Plasma-driven decentralized production of essential chemicals

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01283-5

Maria L. Carreon

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An efficient catalytic route in haem peroxygenases mediated by O2/small-molecule reductant pairs for sustainable applications

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01281-7

Di Deng, Zhihui Jiang, Lixin Kang, Langxing Liao, Xiaodong Zhang, Yuben Qiao, Yang Zhou, Liulin Yang, Binju Wang, Aitao Li

{"title":"An efficient catalytic route in haem peroxygenases mediated by O2/small-molecule reductant pairs for sustainable applications","authors":"Di Deng, Zhihui Jiang, Lixin Kang, Langxing Liao, Xiaodong Zhang, Yuben Qiao, Yang Zhou, Liulin Yang, Binju Wang, Aitao Li","doi":"10.1038/s41929-024-01281-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41929-024-01281-7","url":null,"abstract":"Haem peroxygenases are attractive biocatalysts for incorporating oxygen into organic molecules using H2O2. However, their practical applications are hindered by irreversible oxidative inactivation due to exogenous H2O2 usage. Here we present an alternative catalytic route in haem peroxygenases that uses O2 and small-molecule reductants such as ascorbic acid and dehydroascorbic acid (DHA) to drive reactions. Our experimental and computational studies indicated that DHAA, the hydrated form of DHA, serves as the key co-substrate that activates oxygen to generate the active oxyferryl haem compound I. We also demonstrate the broad applicability of this O2/reductant-dependent route across various haem peroxygenases, highlighting its biological significance for mono-oxygenase functionality. Importantly, this innovative route avoids the use of H2O2, thereby preventing the risk of irreversible enzyme inactivation. Finally, scaled-up reactions yielded chiral, value-added products with excellent productivity, underscoring the synthetic potential of this developed peroxygenase technology for sustainable chemical transformations. H2O2-dependent haem-peroxygenase-catalysed C–H bond oxyfunctionalization reactions have attracted much attention, but elevated concentrations of H2O2 are detrimental to the enzyme. Now, it is reported that this biocatalyst can operate via an alternative pathway using O2 and small-molecule reductants.","PeriodicalId":18845,"journal":{"name":"Nature Catalysis","volume":"8 1","pages":"20-32"},"PeriodicalIF":42.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143050532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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In situ electrochemical production of solid peroxide from urine 用尿液原位电化学生产固体过氧化物

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01277-3

Xinjian Shi, Yue Jiang, Bailin Zeng, Zhuoyue Sun, Maojin Yun, Peng Lv, Yu Jia, Xiaolin Zheng

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A hydrogenative oxidation strategy for the single-step synthesis of lactams from N-heteroarenes using water 水催化n -杂芳烃一步合成内酰胺的氢化氧化策略

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01286-2

Yaoyu Liang, Jie Luo, Cai You, Yael Diskin-Posner, David Milstein

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