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Researchers long believed that there were just two types of catalysts available: metals and enzymes. Independently of each other #NobelPrize laureates Benjamin List and David MacMillan developed a third type – asymmetric organocatalysis – which builds upon small organic molecules
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How to understand that in principle, all catalysts discovered before the year 2000 were either metals or enzymes? How about other catalysts, such as zeolites, metal oxides, rare earths, solid acids and organic base catalysts?
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Metalloenzymes!
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Feels a little "used car salesperson" to frame all of Catalysis in these three buckets...
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