Electroreduction offers a promising route for converting CO 2 into value-added chemicals using renewable electricity. Among the possible products, formic acid is particularly attractive because it is ...

Asymmetric catalysis with chiral Brønsted acids has emerged as a versatile strategy for the enantioselective synthesis of complex molecules. This approach exploits chiral proton donors—often ...

The electrocatalytic oxidation of formic acid has emerged as a pivotal reaction for direct formic acid fuel cells and sustainable energy conversion systems. Mechanistically, the process bifurcates ...

The process of catalysis—in which a material speeds up a chemical reaction—is crucial to the production of many of the chemicals used in our everyday lives. But even though these catalytic processes ...

Rolls of brightly colored plastic. After it is used and discarded, polylactic acid could be used as a feedstock for making the amino acid alanine. Credit: Shutterstock One of the simpler amino acids, ...

A dump truck drives up a road in an open pit mine. The Fimiston Open Pit in Australia’s Goldfields–Esperance region produces roughly 24,000 kg of gold per year. Metal mining uses large amounts of ...