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Biocatalysis and Biotransformations
- Manuel Ferrer
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Catalysts, Volume 8, Issue 5
May 2018 - 50 articles
Cover Story: The cover design represents the core idea of our research, which is the exploitation of woody biomass waste to produce bioproducts (mainly charcoal) that could replace fossil fuel utilization in metallurgical industries, helping them reduce their massive CO2 emissions. For this purpose pyrolysis has been proven as a suitable technology, however, in order to make process profitable and sustainable a proper catalytic optimization of the vapors composition is mandatory. The picture shows the characteristic closed carbon loop associated to biomass, the wastes produced from forest activities are pyrolysed and the vapors thermal-catalytically treated. The charcoal and pyro gas are then used by the metallurgical industry and finally the CO2 is fixed again by the growing plant species. View this paper.
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- Article
25 Citations
6,563 Views
14 Pages
Fe Oxides Loaded on Carbon Cloth by Hydrothermal Process as an Effective and Reusable Heterogenous Fenton Catalyst
- Honghui Yang,
- Bofang Shi and
- Silan Wang
Iron based heterogeneous Fenton catalysts are attracting much attention for its economic and environmental friendly characteristics. In this study, iron oxides loaded carbon cloth (assigned as Fe@CC) was prepared using hydrothermal hydrolysis of Fe(N...
- Article
19 Citations
4,752 Views
15 Pages
Cross-Linked Enzyme Aggregates of Feruloyl Esterase Preparations from Thermothelomyces thermophila and Talaromyces wortmannii
- Anastasia Zerva,
- Io Antonopoulou,
- Josefine Enman,
- Laura Iancu,
- Ulrika Rova and
- Paul Christakopoulos
Cross-linked enzyme aggregates (CLEA®) technology is a well-established method in the current literature for the low-cost and effective immobilization of several enzymes. The main advantage of this particular method is the simplicity of the process,...
- Article
29 Citations
6,557 Views
19 Pages
Improved CO-PROX Performance of CuO/CeO2 Catalysts by Using Nanometric Ceria as Support
- Almerinda Di Benedetto,
- Gianluca Landi and
- Luciana Lisi
Despite of the huge number of papers about the catalytic preferential oxidation of CO (CO-PROX) for the purification of H2 streams, there is still a need for more effective catalysts in order to reduce the large required catalyst volume of CO-PROX un...
- Article
29 Citations
6,783 Views
15 Pages
Synthesis, Characterization of Nanosized ZnCr2O4 and Its Photocatalytic Performance in the Degradation of Humic Acid from Drinking Water
- Raluca Dumitru,
- Florica Manea,
- Cornelia Păcurariu,
- Lavinia Lupa,
- Aniela Pop,
- Adrian Cioablă,
- Adrian Surdu and
- Adelina Ianculescu
Zinc chromite (ZnCr2O4) has been synthesized by the thermolysis of a new Zn(II)-Cr(III) oxalate coordination compound, namely [Cr2Zn(C2O4)4(OH2)6]·4H2O. The coordination compound has been characterized by chemical analysis, infrared spectroscopy (IR)...
- Feature Paper
- Review
15 Citations
6,647 Views
24 Pages
Artificial Biocatalytic Linear Cascades to Access Hydroxy Acids, Lactones, and α- and β-Amino Acids
- Joerg H. Schrittwieser,
- Stefan Velikogne and
- Wolfgang Kroutil
α-, β-, and ω-Hydroxy acids, amino acids, and lactones represent common building blocks and intermediates for various target molecules. This review summarizes artificial cascades published during the last 10 years leading to these products. Renewable...
- Review
5 Citations
4,776 Views
10 Pages
Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Phaeosphaerides
- Kenichi Kobayashi,
- Kosaku Tanaka and
- Hiroshi Kogen
This article reviews studies regarding the total synthesis of phaeosphaerides A and B, nitrogen-containing bicyclic natural products isolated from an endophytic fungus. Numerous synthetic efforts and an X-ray crystal structure analysis of phaeosphaer...
- Article
3 Citations
6,482 Views
6 Pages
A Demonstration of Pt L3-Edge EXAFS Free from Au L3-Edge Using Log–Spiral Bent Crystal Laue Analyzers
- Yuki Wakisaka,
- Daiki Kido,
- Hiromitsu Uehara,
- Qiuyi Yuan,
- Satoru Takakusagi,
- Yohei Uemura,
- Toshihiko Yokoyama,
- Takahiro Wada,
- Motohiro Uo and
- Tomohiro Sakata
- + 4 authors
Pt-Au nanostructures are important and well-studied fuel cell catalysts for their promising catalytic performance. However, a detailed quantitative local structure analysis, using extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy, have be...
- Feature Paper
- Article
40 Citations
6,578 Views
18 Pages
Ru–Pd Bimetallic Catalysts Supported on CeO2-MnOX Oxides as Efficient Systems for H2 Purification through CO Preferential Oxidation
- Roberto Fiorenza,
- Luca Spitaleri,
- Antonino Gulino and
- Salvatore Scirè
The catalytic performances of Ru/ceria-based catalysts in the CO preferential oxidation (CO-PROX) reaction are discussed here. Specifically, the effect of the addition of different oxides to Ru/CeO2 has been assessed. The Ru/CeO2-MnOx system showed t...
- Article
36 Citations
5,802 Views
16 Pages
Improvement Effect of Ni to Pd-Ni/SBA-15 Catalyst for Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde to Hydrocinnamaldehyde
- Shiying Han,
- Yunfei Liu,
- Jiang Li,
- Rui Li,
- Fulong Yuan and
- Yujun Zhu
A series of Pd-Ni bimetallic catalysts supported on SBA-15 (0.2%Pd-x%Ni/SBA-15, x = 0.4, 0.7, and 1.2) were prepared through the impregnation method combined with the NaBH4 reduction method. X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 adsorption-desorption, X-ray ph...
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