Over time, organisms have evolved strategies to cope with the abundance of dioxygen on
Earth. Oxygen-utilizing enzymes tightly control the reactions involving O2 mostly by …

From Egyptian mummies to the Chanel n° 5 perfume, fatty aldehydes have long been used
and keep impacting our senses in a wide range of foods, beverages and perfumes. Natural …

Abstract Furan‐2, 5‐dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is a biobased platform chemical for the
production of polymers. In the past few years, numerous multistep chemical routes have …

Acetic acid bacteria (AAB) are a group of bacteria that can oxidize many substrates such as
alcohols and sugar alcohols and play important roles in industrial biotechnology. A majority …

2, 5-Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is an increasingly important platform chemical that may
be produced via thermochemical, photochemical, electrochemical, or biocatalysis …

In the search for useful and renewable chemical building blocks, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural
(HMF) has emerged as a very promising candidate, as it can be prepared from sugars. HMF …

Aryl-alcohol oxidase (AAO) is an extracellular flavoprotein providing the H 2 O 2 required by
ligninolytic peroxidases for fungal degradation of lignin, the key step for carbon recycling in …

Many flavoproteins catalyze the oxidation of primary and secondary amines, with the transfer
of a hydride equivalent from a carbon–nitrogen bond to the flavin cofactor. Most of these …

The oxidation of flavin hydroquinones by O2 in solution is slow, with second-order rate
constants of∼ 250 M–1 s–1. This is due to the obligatory, single-electron transfer that …

Hydride transfer (HT) is a fundamental step in a wide range of reaction pathways, including
those mediated by dihydropyridinates (DHP− s). Coordination of ions directly to the pyridine …