Copper active sites in biology

EI Solomon, DE Heppner, EM Johnston… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
On the basis of its generally accessible I/II redox couple and bioavailability, copper plays a
wide variety of roles in nature that mostly involve electron transfer (ET), O 2 binding …

The isotope geochemistry of zinc and copper

F Moynier, D Vance, T Fujii… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Copper, a native metal found in ores, is the principal metal in bronze and brass. It is a
reddish metal with a density of 8920 kg m− 3. All of copper's compounds tend to be brightly …

Continuous electroproduction of formate via CO2 reduction on local symmetry-broken single-atom catalysts

J Dong, Y Liu, J Pei, H Li, S Ji, L Shi, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Atomic-level coordination engineering is an efficient strategy for tuning the catalytic
performance of single-atom catalysts (SACs). However, their rational design has so far been …

Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to ethylene and ethanol through hydrogen-assisted C–C coupling over fluorine-modified copper

W Ma, S Xie, T Liu, Q Fan, J Ye, F Sun, Z Jiang… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 into multicarbon (C2+) products is a highly attractive route
for CO2 utilization; however, the yield of C2+ products remains low because of the limited …

Photocatalytic C–C coupling from carbon dioxide reduction on copper oxide with mixed-valence copper (I)/copper (II)

W Wang, C Deng, S Xie, Y Li, W Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To realize the evolution of C2+ hydrocarbons like C2H4 from CO2 reduction in
photocatalytic systems remains a great challenge, owing to the gap between the relatively …

Dynamic multinuclear sites formed by mobilized copper ions in NOx selective catalytic reduction

C Paolucci, I Khurana, AA Parekh, S Li, AJ Shih, H Li… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Copper ions exchanged into zeolites are active for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of
nitrogen oxides (NO x) with ammonia (NH3), but the low-temperature rate dependence on …

2D Copper Tetrahydroxyquinone Conductive Metal–Organic Framework for Selective CO2 Electrocatalysis at Low Overpotentials

L Majidi, A Ahmadiparidari, N Shan… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising materials for electrocatalysis; however,
lack of electrical conductivity in the majority of existing MOFs limits their effective utilization in …

Bioinspired metal–organic framework catalysts for selective methane oxidation to methanol

J Baek, B Rungtaweevoranit, X Pei… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is an enzyme that oxidizes methane to
methanol with high activity and selectivity. Limited success has been achieved in …

A supramolecular metalloenzyme possessing robust oxidase-mimetic catalytic function

S Xu, H Wu, S Liu, P Du, H Wang, H Yang, W Xu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Enzymes fold into unique three-dimensional structures to distribute their reactive amino acid
residues, but environmental changes can disrupt their essential folding and lead to …

Construction and identification of highly active single-atom Fe1-NC catalytic site for electrocatalytic nitrate reduction

L Liu, T Xiao, H Fu, Z Chen, X Qu, S Zheng - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Atomically dispersed metal-NC sites are highly active and selective for nitrate reduction
reaction (NO 3 RR), while identifying their coordination and geometry structures remains …