The researchers instead attached a single bromine atom to fatty acids, a process that required no
complicated reaction steps, and treated cells with these modified fatty acids.
«Now you can start to think about really fine tuning catalysts to perform better throughout
different reaction steps,» Peterson said.
The team tested numerous substances and finally found two catalysts that had the required properties: a copper compound for the
first reaction step and a rhodium / molybdenum compound for the second step.
Researchers have assumed that this zeolite would break down nitric oxide in the same way that other zeolites do, following the same series of
chemical reaction steps.
For example, our patents and pending patent applications describe the handling of mixed feedstocks in multiple
process reaction steps, where each of those steps is at different conditions, such as pressure and temperature, with phase separation in between the process steps.
High - throughput testing provides a wide breadth of composition evaluation but only provides limited steady - state kinetic information about the
slow reaction steps.
Szanyi «s main research interests are in surface chemistry and catalysis; in particular the understanding of
elementary reactions steps on model and real catalytic systems using a variety of spectroscopic techniques (primarily FTIR).
Applied computational chemistry methods to find transition state complexes and activation energies of catalyzed reactions to determine
mechanistic reaction steps consistent with experimental research reported in literature
Molecular dynamics and density functional theory calculations provide mechanistic insights into
the reaction steps.
Although the mimic works more slowly than the natural enzyme — perhaps because the alcohol molecule is more free to move around — Stack and Wang found that it duplicates the enzyme's
reaction steps.
But what is the advantage of being able to observe
the reaction steps now with even higher resolution?
«We followed
the reaction step by step in time, including seeing the short - lived, and thus elusive, intermediates that play decisive roles in the final products,» JILA / NIST Fellow Jun Ye said.
In addition, Appel shared information gained on balancing the energetics of
the reaction steps.
A labelling exercise;
reaction steps, phases, and what is required for each step.