Frontiers, opportunities, and challenges in biochemical and chemical catalysis of CO2 fixation.
Frontiers, opportunities, and challenges in biochemical and chemical catalysis of CO2 fixation.
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10.1021/cr300463y
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发表时间:
2013-08-14
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影响因子:
62.1
通讯作者:
Waldrop, Grover L.
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Appel, Aaron M.;Bercaw, John E.;Bocarsly, Andrew B.;Dobbek, Holger;DuBois, Daniel L.;Dupuis, Michel;Ferry, James G.;Fujita, Etsuko;Hille, Russ;Kenis, Paul J. A.;Kerfeld, Cheal A.;Morris, Robert H.;Peden, Charles H. F.;Portis, Archie R.;Ragsdale, Stephen W.;Rauchfuss, Thomas B.;Reek, Joost N. H.;Seefeldt, Lance C.;Thauer, Rudolf K.;Waldrop, Grover L.
Two major energy-related problems confront the world in the next 50 years. First, increased worldwide competition for gradually depleting fossil fuel reserves (derived from past photosynthesis) will lead to higher costs, both monetarily and politically. Second, atmospheric CO2 levels are at their highest recorded level since records began. Further increases are predicted to produce large and uncontrollable impacts on the world climate. These projected impacts extend beyond climate to ocean acidification, because the ocean is a major sink for atmospheric CO2. 1 Providing a future energy supply that is secure and CO2-neutral will require switching to nonfossil energy sources such as wind, solar, nuclear, and geothermal energy and developing methods for transforming the energy produced by these new sources into forms that can be stored, transported, and used upon demand. Carbon dioxide is the ultimate source of the fossil fuels used in our daily lives. These fossil fuels exist as gases, liquids, and solids, from which we can select the form most suitable for a particular application. This flexibility in fuel choice will be beneficial for the foreseeable future. The process that drives carbon fixation into these fuels is photosynthesis, the biological conversion of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into reduced organic materials. Photosynthesis occurs on a very large scale. An estimated 385× 109 tons of carbon dioxide are fixed annually net, 2 and the gross value is larger by a factor of 2. 3 Pathways for CO2 fixation have evolved over billions of years and use diverse mechanisms and enzymes for processing CO2 by making C− H and C− C bonds and cleaving C− O bonds. Research on homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 and CO reduction has also contributed to our understanding of C− C and C− H bond formation reactions as well as C− O bond cleavage reactions involved in the production of synthetic fuels. Significant scientific and economic imperatives thus motivate the development of carbon dioxide as a feedstock for fuels. According to the 2008 Bell/DOE report, 4 “The major obstacle preventing efficient conversion of carbon dioxide into energy-bearing products is the lack of catalysts...” This background exemplifies the challenges that must be addressed. These considerations led to a workshop on CO2 chemistry carried out under the aegis of the Council on Chemical and Biochemical Sciences of the Basic Energy Sciences Division of the United States Department of Energy. Held in the fall of 2011, the workshop had the purpose of assessing synergistic contributions of the catalysis and biological communities to the problem of converting carbon dioxide directly into fuels.All biological systems must extract energy from their environments to carry out the metabolic processes associated with life itself. Living organisms have evolved to exist in an amazing variety of environments, and they can use and interconvert energy from a variety of sources. In addition to the six known metabolic pathways involved in the biological fixation of CO2 into organic carbon, there are also important
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