Synthetic Chemistry with an Eye on Future Sustainability

Aerobic oxidation catalyzed by polyoxometalates associated to an artificial reductase at room temperature and in water

“…1 It has therefore become essential, in the present context of sustainable growth, to develop new environmentally friendly chemical processes. [2][3][4][5][6][7] There are different manners to reduce the impact of chemical processes on the environment and at least two key points have to be addressed: (i) to reduce energy consumption by lowering temperature and pressure, (ii) to reduce waste production by avoiding organic solvents and by improving the selectivity and the chemical yields. On the one hand, enzymes entirely fulfill these requirements, but unfortunately also require numerous steps of cloning, overexpression and purification, which strongly restricts their use in industrial processes.…”