The present article comprehensively reviews the macromolecular synthesis using enzymes
as catalysts. Among the six main classes of enzymes, the three classes, oxidoreductases …

The chemistry of copper is extremely rich because it can easily access Cu0, CuI, CuII, and
CuIII oxidation states allowing it to act through one-electron or two-electron processes. As a …

The development of processes for selective hydrocarbon oxidation is a goal that has long
been pursued. An additional challenge is to make such processes environmentally friendly …

Polymeric materials, natural and unnatural, are indispensable to the modern society. They
are widely used from everyday life usages as commodity materials to industry and …

There has been an exponential increase in interest in the area of in vitro enzyme-catalyzed
organic reactions, since many families of enzymes can be utilized for transformation of not …

This paper presents an overview on recent developments of oxidative polymerizations of
phenols, particularly focusing on the coupling selectivity. In 1959, Hay et al. discovered an …

The first systematic studies on the oxidation of neutral phenols (ArOH) by the (μ-η2: η2-
peroxo) dicopper (II) complex (A) and the bis (μ-oxo) dicopper (III) complex (B) supported by …

The X-ray structure of a 1: 1 Cu/O2 adduct revealed side-on (η2) O2 coordination. Density
functional calculations corroborated the structure, indicated a significant contribution of a Cu …

Our recent advances in enzymatic polymerization, defined as chemical polymer syntheses in
vitro (in test tubes) via non-biosynthetic pathways catalyzed by an isolated enzyme, have …

The reactions of LCuCl (L= 2, 4-bis ((2, 6-diisopropylphenyl) imido) pentane (LiPr), 2, 4-bis
((2, 6-diisopropylphenyl) imido)-3-chloropentane (LCliPr)) with the phenolates TlOAr (Ar …