Catalysis in Chemical Industry

Learning Chemical Trends in Heterogeneous Catalysis

Despite tremendous advances in the understanding of catalysis in the past few decades, the discovery of improved materials for energy transformation processes has been guided by physical intuition and trial-and-error approaches. Even though computational simulations have provided a more rational approach, even the most systematic studies involving the most well-described systems require a large...

Catalysis-where science and industry meet

The role of catalysis in chemical industry as basis of modern civilization is described and mechanism of catalytic reactions is discussed. Influence of electronic structure of transition metal atoms, structure sensitivity of catalytic reactions, tailoring of acid-base and redox properties of zeolites, quantum chemical description of elementary reaction steps, dynamics of catalysts surfaces, osc...

Licensing in the chemical industry

Current Topics Chemical Basis for Enzyme Catalysis

Some half-century ago Pauling (1, 2) proposed that the lowering of the activation energy in enzyme catalysis stems from the enzyme’s affinity for the transition state exceeding it’s affinity for the substrate. This proposal has great popular appeal and has served as the basis for the design of transition state based inhibitors and for inducing catalytic activity in various molecular templates (...

DNA Catalysis: The Chemical Repertoire of DNAzymes.

Deoxyribozymes or DNAzymes are single-stranded catalytic DNA molecules that are obtained by combinatorial in vitro selection methods. Initially conceived to function as gene silencing agents, the scope of DNAzymes has rapidly expanded into diverse fields, including biosensing, diagnostics, logic gate operations, and the development of novel synthetic and biological tools. In this review, an ove...