Artificial photosynthesis systems for solar energy conversion and storage: platforms and their realities

Z Wang, Y Hu, S Zhang, Y Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In natural photosynthesis, photosynthetic organisms such as green plants realize efficient
solar energy conversion and storage by integrating photosynthetic components on the …

Round, round we go–strategies for enzymatic cofactor regeneration

S Mordhorst, JN Andexer - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the beginning of 2020 Enzymes depending on cofactors are essential in
many biosynthetic pathways of natural products. They are often involved in key steps …

Metal-free reduction of CO2 to formate using a photochemical organohydride-catalyst recycling strategy

W Xie, J Xu, U Md Idros, J Katsuhira, M Fuki… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere is a problem that must be urgently resolved if the
rise in current global temperatures is to be slowed. Chemically reducing CO2 into …

Biocatalytic reduction reactions from a chemist's perspective

F Hollmann, DJ Opperman… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reductions play a key role in organic synthesis, producing chiral products with new
functionalities. Enzymes can catalyse such reactions with exquisite stereo‐, regio‐and …

High-yield hydrogen production from biomass by in vitro metabolic engineering: mixed sugars coutilization and kinetic modeling

JA Rollin, J Martin del Campo… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The use of hydrogen (H2) as a fuel offers enhanced energy conversion efficiency and
tremendous potential to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, but producing it in a …

Engineering enzyme properties for improved biocatalytic processes in batch and continuous flow

RA Rocha, RE Speight, C Scott - Organic Process Research & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The widespread adoption of biocatalysis by industry to perform highly selective chemical
syntheses has been made possible only by the development of highly effective methods in …

Better than nature: nicotinamide biomimetics that outperform natural coenzymes

T Knaus, CE Paul, CW Levy, S De Vries… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The search for affordable, green biocatalytic processes is a challenge for chemicals
manufacture. Redox biotransformations are potentially attractive, but they rely on unstable …

Biomimetic asymmetric catalysis

X Xiao, K Xu, ZH Gao, ZH Zhu, C Ye, B Zhao… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
Enzymes are the core for biological transformations in nature. Their structures and functions
have drawn enormous attention from biologists as well as chemists since last century. The …

Production of biofuels and biochemicals by in vitro synthetic biosystems: opportunities and challenges

YHP Zhang - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
The largest obstacle to the cost-competitive production of low-value and high-impact
biofuels and biochemicals (called biocommodities) is high production costs catalyzed by …

Selective reductive coupling of vinyl azaarenes and alkynes via photoredox cobalt dual catalysis

ZY Gu, WD Li, YL Li, K Cui… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A visible light‐induced Co‐catalyzed highly regio‐and stereoselective reductive coupling of
vinyl azaarenes and alkynes has been developed. Notably, Hünig's base together with …