Publisher description for Mechanical catalysis : methods of heterogeneous, homogeneous, and enzymatic catalysis / editor, Gerhard F. Swiegers.
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The scientists involved in biomimetic chemistry and_organic intramolecular rate studies have not been well served by a one-sided focus on energy-dependent catalysis._A clear and systematic description of the key role played by catalyst reactant dynamism is provided by this book.__It will help chemists, biochemists, and chemical engineers_to understand how such dynamism leads to time-dependent catalysis. This is the central intention and impetus of this work._
This book_discusses the fundamental processes_ at work, the origin of its general and physical features, the way it has evolved, and how it relates to catalysis in man-made systems ("biological self-assembly" or "biomimetics")._ It_ ties together the thirty-plus existing theories of enzymatic catalysis, covers_design issues such as requirements, problems, approaches, and solutions in the creation of_enzymatic catalysts, explains the difference between energy- and time-dependent catalysis, and ties in the very hot and controversial ideas of complexity and complex systems science, which has large implications and could revolutionize our present understanding of the concept of catalysis.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Heterogeneous catalysis.
Catalysis.
Enzymes -- Biotechnology.