Metalloporphyrins as catalytic models for studying hydrogen and oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions

X Li, H Lei, L Xie, N Wang, W Zhang… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are involved in biological and artificial energy conversions …

Single-atom (iron-based) catalysts: synthesis and applications

B Singh, MB Gawande, AD Kute, RS Varma… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Supported single-metal atom catalysts (SACs) are constituted of isolated active metal
centers, which are heterogenized on inert supports such as graphene, porous carbon, and …

Second and outer coordination sphere effects in nitrogenase, hydrogenase, formate dehydrogenase, and CO dehydrogenase

ST Stripp, BR Duffus, V Fourmond, C Léger… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Gases like H2, N2, CO2, and CO are increasingly recognized as critical feedstock in “green”
energy conversion and as sources of nitrogen and carbon for the agricultural and chemical …

Towards molecular understanding of local chemical environment effects in electro- and photocatalytic CO2 reduction

A Wagner, CD Sahm, E Reisner - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Substantial progress has recently been made in the general understanding of the interfacial
CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) in electro-and photocatalysis, but the influence of the local …

Biomimetic active sites on monolayered metal–organic frameworks for artificial photosynthesis

G Lan, Y Fan, W Shi, E You, SS Veroneau, W Lin - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Enzymes have evolved to catalyse challenging chemical transformations with high efficiency
and selectivity. Although a number of artificial systems have been developed to recapitulate …

Designing artificial metalloenzymes by tuning of the environment beyond the primary coordination sphere

C Van Stappen, Y Deng, Y Liu, H Heidari… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metalloenzymes catalyze a variety of reactions using a limited number of natural amino
acids and metallocofactors. Therefore, the environment beyond the primary coordination …

Atomic-level design of metalloenzyme-like active pockets in metal–organic frameworks for bioinspired catalysis

W Xu, Y Wu, W Gu, D Du, Y Lin, C Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural metalloenzymes with astonishing reaction activity and specificity underpin essential
life transformations. Nevertheless, enzymes only operate under mild conditions to keep …

Molecular catalysts with diphosphine ligands containing pendant amines

ES Wiedner, AM Appel, S Raugei, WJ Shaw… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pendant amines play an invaluable role in chemical reactivity, especially for molecular
catalysts based on earth-abundant metals. As inspired by [FeFe]-hydrogenases, which …

Electro-and solar-driven fuel synthesis with first row transition metal complexes

KE Dalle, J Warnan, JJ Leung, B Reuillard… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of renewable fuels from abundant water or the greenhouse gas CO2 is a
major step toward creating sustainable and scalable energy storage technologies. In the last …

Molecular Catalysis of Energy Relevance in Metal–Organic Frameworks: From Higher Coordination Sphere to System Effects

NF Suremann, BD McCarthy, W Gschwind… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The modularity and synthetic flexibility of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have provoked
analogies with enzymes, and even the term MOFzymes has been coined. In this review, we …