The continued sustainable advancement of human civilization is gravely threatened by the upcoming energy and environmental challenges. The switch to clean energy is urgently needed, as is the creation of effective technologies for chemical processing of renewable raw materials including water and atmospheric gases. Future technologies should be built on biomimetic chemical principles and heavily utilise bio-inspired techniques. Future chemical production must be waste-free, just as the natural movement of substances. First, artificial photosynthesis must be developed in order to learn how to utilise solar energy. The newly developed generation of bio-inspired catalysts, such as metallocavitins (MC), which are suitable chemical analogues of metalloenzymes, are of tremendous interest in this context. Metallocavitins, which include molecular cages, metal-organic frameworks (MOF), covalent organic frameworks (COF), and others, can simulate the chemical reactivity of metalloenzymes whose efficiency and selectivity are well established. Metallocavitin is primarily employed in enantioselective catalysis and precise organic synthesis. On the other hand, metallocavitins show excellent activity for reactions involving small gas molecules that require a lot of energy as well as good selectivity for converting them into useful products. This review's main goal is to showcase some recent developments in MC-based precision organic synthesis. In light of the significant issues that society is currently facing, much focus will be placed on the activation of tiny molecules like H2O, CO2, N2, O2, and CH4 as well as the potential for developing related technological processes.
Author(s) Details:
Albert A. Shteinman,
Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, RAN, Chernogolovka, Russian Federation.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/PCSR-V4/article/view/8187
