Biomimetic catalysis in a larger context. Correlation of structure and function with genesis

✍ Scribed by Craig L. Hill; Huadong Zeng; Xuan Zhang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 546 KB
• Volume: 113
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1381-1169
• DOI: 10.1016/s1381-1169(96)00214-2

✦ Synopsis

The relationships between the formation (serial synthesis, self assembly, etc.) of biological and man-made catalysts and their catalyzed reactions are discussed. A potentially utilitarian implication of a correlation between catalyst genesis and function is a more resilient catalyst can 'sense' certain kinds of damage (those involved in reversal of the catalyst into its synthetic components) and repair itself. A set of correlated reactions has been developed. The catalyst, H,PVMo, ,O,,, self assembles from several components and simultaneously catalyzes a new, fast and highly selective reaction, the oxidative dehydrogenation of cu-terpinene to p-cymene by t-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP).