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Bioelectronics and biometallocatalysis for production of fuels and chemicals by photosynthetic water splitting

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By inserting metallocatalysts (such as platinum, osmium, or ruthenium) at the reducing site of photosystem I (PSI), electrons that emerge from PSI can be channeled to various redox reactions that could potentially produce fuels and chemicals (such as H2 and CH4, and so forth) instead of NADP+ reduction, as in natural photosynthesis. We have recently developed a technique to photoprecipitate metallocatalystsin situ at the reducing site of PSI in thylakoid membranes, using water-soluble hexachloroplatinate, hexachloroosmiate, and hexachlororuthenate at biological temperature and neutral pH. This technique combined with “rewiring” of photosynthesis is a potentially important new field of biometallocatalysis. Potential applications of biometallocatalysis will be addressed in this article.

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The submitted manuscript has been authored by a contractor of the US government under contract No. DE-AC05-84OR21400. Accordingly, the US government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes.

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Lee, J.W., Greenbaum, E. Bioelectronics and biometallocatalysis for production of fuels and chemicals by photosynthetic water splitting. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 51, 295–305 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02933433

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