Inspired by what human liver enzymes can do, chemists have developed a new set of copper-catalyzed organic synthesis reactions for building and modifying pharmaceuticals and other molecules. The ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered important new clues in the mystery of how an ...

A team of researchers, led by Professor Chae Un Kim from the Department of Physics at UNIST, has successfully tracked the ...

The reaction stitches together ... Huang and Wang have been collaborating for the past 5 years on engineering enzymes for organic synthesis. “Our goal is to make photoenzymatic catalysis more ...

Using directed evolution, researchers have developed an enzyme that catalyses the formation of biaryl bonds (Nature 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04365-7). This new enzyme makes carbon-carbon ...

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To make advances in using microbes to sustainably produce materials, it is necessary to find new molecular tools, or ...

A pioneering research lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has achieved another milestone using light-driven ...

In this review, we report ascorbic acid-catalyzed reactions in organic synthesis. Several examples are included in this review to demonstrate that ascorbic acid is a versatile catalyst for the ...

They replaced iron porphyrin in the CYP119 enzyme with iridium porphyrin, and tested the resulting reactions catalyzed by the new hybrid. The revved up reaction rates were within an order of ...

The team investigated a well-known enzyme that has been studied extensively and is a textbook example of enzyme catalysis. Without the enzyme, the reaction is extremely slow: in fact, it would ...