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"Designing artificial systems with catalytic efficiencies to rival those of natural enzymes is one of the great challenges facing science today. Our current level of understanding fails the basic, practical test - designing and making artificial systems with catalytic efficiencies to rival thos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirby, Anthony J. (Anthony John), 1935-
Other Authors: Hollfelder, Florian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. : Royal Society of Chemistry, [2009]
Subjects:
Enzymes.
Enzymes > Synthesis.
Table of Contents:
  • From models through mimics to artificial enzymes
  • Evaluation of catalytic efficiency in enzymes and enzyme models
  • Constructing enzyme models : building up complexity
  • Enzyme models classified by reaction
  • Design vs. iterative methods : mimicking the way nature generates catalysts.