Research team redesigns phenoxyl radicals with improved oxidation capacity in the lab.
Nature uses enzymes for various metabolic processes. These biological catalysts are extremely efficient. Biomimetic catalysts based on inexpensive starting materials from the laboratory that can reproduce the efficiency of the natural enzymes and can function at ambient conditions are therefore of great interest to research and industry.In a project led by the Institute of Chemistry at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), researchers have been investigating a special group of biological catalysts known as oxidases. These enzymes catalyze various oxidation reactions, where electrons are released from one substance and absorbed by another. ...
