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SUBMITTER: Lee JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4385254 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Jung Yoon JY Karlin Kenneth D KD
Current opinion in chemical biology 20150308
To contribute solutions to current energy concerns, improvements in the efficiency of dioxygen mediated C-H bond cleavage chemistry, for example, selective oxidation of methane to methanol, could minimize losses in natural gas usage or produce feedstocks for fuels. Oxidative C-H activation is also a component of polysaccharide degradation, potentially affording alternative biofuels from abundant biomass. Thus, an understanding of active-site chemistry in copper monooxygenases, those activating s ...[more]