ACS Catalysis Blurs the Lines Between Catalysis Subdisciplines

ACS Catalysis and the Scope of Papers Sought in Three Catalysis Subdisciplines: Biocatalysis and Enzymology, Molecular Catalysis for Organic Synthesis, and Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

Subdisciplines: Biocatalysis and Enzymology, Molecular Catalysis for Organic Synthesis, and Heterogeneous Photocatalysis A a comprehensive catalysis journal, jointly “owned” by the vast array of researchers studying molecules and materials that catalyze reactions, the scope of ACS Catalysis is understandably quite broad. In this regard, the editorial team has stated that the journal seeks the t...

Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission to ACS Catalysis

I 2013, after the release of our first impact factor (IF) in June, the manuscript submission rate to ACS Catalysis doubled, remaining at the elevated rate for the remainder of the year and climbing even higher in 2014. With this increase in submissions came a concomitant increase in the standards for acceptance, both with regard to scientific and technical quality, as well as potential for impa...

Homogeneous Catalysis Homogeneous Catalysis

Relation between enzymic catalysis and energy coupling.

The principles that underlie enzyme catalysis also apply to energy coupling processes. A comparison is made between a kinase system that mediates the phosphorylation of glucose by ATP (hexokinase), as the prototype for enzymic catalysis, and the mitochondrial electron-transfer complexes, as the prototypes for energy coupling systems. Induced polarization of chemical bonds and charge separation ...

Microheterogeneous catalysis.

The catalytic effect of micelles, polymers (such as DNA, polypeptides) and nanoparticles, saturable receptors (cyclodextrins and calixarenes) and more complex systems (mixing some of the above mentioned catalysts) have been reviewed. In these microheterogeneous systems the observed changes in the rate constants have been rationalized using the Pseudophase Model. This model produces equations th...