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ReviewNature reviews. Chemistry2021

Reversible catalysis.

Vincent Fourmond, Nicolas Plumeré, Christophe Léger

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Review in Nature reviews. Chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Vincent FourmondLaboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, and Institut Microbiologie, Bioénergies et Biotechnologie, Marseille, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9837-6214
Nicolas PlumeréCampus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Technical University of Munich, Straubing, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5303-7865
Christophe LégerLaboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, and Institut Microbiologie, Bioénergies et Biotechnologie, Marseille, France. christophe.leger@imm.cnrs.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-6059

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe as 'reversible' a bidirectional catalyst that allows a reaction to proceed at a significant rate in response to even a small departure from equilibrium, resulting in fast and energy-efficient chemical transformation. Examining the relation between reaction rate and thermodynamic driving force is the basis of electrochemical investigations of redox reactions, which can be catalysed by metallic surfaces and biological or synthetic molecular catalysts. This relation has also been discussed in the context of biological energy transduction, regarding the function of biological molecular machines that harness chemical reactions to do mechanical work. This Perspective describes mean-field kinetic modelling of these three types of systems - surface catalysts, molecular catalysts of redox reactions and molecular machines - with the goal of unifying concepts in these different fields. We emphasize that reversibility should be distinguished from other figures of merit, such as rate or directionality, before its design principles can be identified and used to engineer synthetic catalysts.

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