The catalytic aldol condensation reaction represents a pivotal method for synthesising acrylic acid through the coupling of simple carbonyl compounds such as acetic acid, formaldehyde and methanol.

The Jingjing Wu group at the National Key Laboratory of Synergistic Materials Creation/Frontier Science Center for Transformative Molecules (FSCTM) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in collaboration ...

IN A DRAMATIC EXAMPLE of translation from in silico to in vitro, scientists have computationally designed a series of new enzymes that catalyze a multistep reaction-including the breaking of a ...

Mat's work involved the use of metal oxide catalysts for reactions relevant to the upgrading of biomass to biofuels. Most recently, he worked working on a collaboration with NREL to study TiO 2 ...