Communicating catalysts

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2018-06

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Weckhuysen, Bert MORCID 0000-0001-5245-1426ISNI 0000000110540180

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Abstract

The beauty and activity of enzymes inspire chemists to tailor new and better non-biological catalysts. Now, a study reveals that the active sites within heterogeneous catalysts actively cooperate in a fashion phenomenologically similar to, but mechanistically distinct, from enzymes.

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Taverne, General Chemistry, General Chemical Engineering

Citation

Weckhuysen, B M 2018, 'Communicating catalysts', Nature Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 580-582. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0069-9