Towards tomorrow's catalysts
Article Abstract:
There is a need for new solid catalysts for mixed or heterogeneous chemical reactions and they are the basis of more efficient ways of reducing plant and automotive emissions, and of producing cleaner fuels such as hydrogen or methanol. The ability to predict and modify the rate-determining steps in chemical reactions will be a boon in designing better catalysts and technical innovations in computer simulations will bring that goal closer.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Catalysts break symmetry
Article Abstract:
A unique, symmetry-breaking reaction method is described that allows chiral molecules to be generated from achiral precursors, which are used as general building-blocks for further organic synthesis. The creative power of synthetic chemistry is demonstrated to build simple organic catalysts that mimic and ultimately surpass, biological catalysts, especially for non-biological transformations.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Carbon credits for the Joneses. Lawyers blast nuclear pact as a breach of disarmament treaty. Media attack prompts editorial backlash against MMR study
- Abstracts: Researchers seize moment to make tobacco data public. Science watchdog baulks at merger. Fears grow as blood stocks pass on prions undetected
- Abstracts: The holes are defined by the string. When symmetry breaks down. Unravelling string theory
- Abstracts: Screen test. Hitting the on switch. The hard copy
- Abstracts: Nesting ecology of boreal forest birds following a massive outbreak of spruce beetles. Variability in colony attendance of crevice-nesting horned puffins: Implications for population monitoring