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SUBMITTER: Lee CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4300254 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Chi Chung CC Hu Yilin Y Ribbe Markus W MW
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20141124 4
Nitrogenase cofactors can be extracted into an organic solvent to catalyze the reduction of cyanide (CN(-)), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2) without using adenosine triphosphate (ATP), when samarium(II) iodide (SmI2) and 2,6-lutidinium triflate (Lut-H) are employed as a reductant and a proton source, respectively. Driven by SmI2, the cofactors catalytically reduce CN(-) or CO to C1-C4 hydrocarbons, and CO2 to CO and C1-C3 hydrocarbons. The C-C coupling from CO2 indicates a unique ...[more]