Hydride Transfer for NADH Regeneration: From Nature, Beyond Nature

Development of a Potential Surface for Simulation of Proton and Hydride Transfer Reactions in Solution: Application to NADH Hydride Transfer

This paper presents a new augmented molecular mechanical potential that incorporates significant quantum mechanical effects for proton and hydride transfer reactions in solution and in enzymes. The solvent is treated explicitly, specified covalent bonds in the solute are allowed to break and form, and the charge distribution of the solute is allowed to vary smoothly from that of the reactant to...

Does Nature Prefer Heterocycles?

Carotenoids in nature: insights from plants and beyond

Carotenoids are natural isoprenoid pigments that provide leaves, fruits, vegetables and flowers with distinctive yellow, orange and some reddish colours as well as several aromas in plants. Their bright colours serve as attractants for pollination and seed dispersal.Carotenoids comprise a large family ofC40 polyenes and are synthesised by all photosynthetic organisms, aphids, some bacteria and ...

Running head: The nature and transfer of cognitive skills The Nature and Transfer of Cognitive Skills

This paper presents the Primitive Elements theory of cognitive skills. The central idea is that skills are broken down into primitive information processing elements that move and compare single pieces of information regardless of the specific content of this information. Several of these primitive elements are necessary for even a single step in a task. A learning process therefore combines th...

Nature-inspired flight--beyond the leap.