The beauty and activity of enzymes inspire chemists to tailor new and better non-biological catalysts. Now, a study reveals that the active sites within heterogeneous catalysts actively cooperate in a fashion phenomenologically similar to, but mechanistically distinct, from enzymes.
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Weckhuysen, B.M. Communicating catalysts. Nature Chem 10, 580–582 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0069-9
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