Biological Production of Hydrogen

Cytochrome P450 enzymes promote a number of oxidative biotransformations including the hydroxylation of unacti-vated hydrocarbons.

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The production of H2O2 by isolated mitochondria is frequently used as a measure of mitochondrial superoxide formation. Matrix superoxide dismu-tase quantitatively converts matrix superoxide to H2O2. However, matrix enzymes such as the glutathione peroxidases can consume H2O2 and com-pete with efflux of H2O2 , causing an underestimation of superoxide produc-tion.

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Catalytic oxidation of organic compounds is an extremely important field of chemistry, spanning the range from biological oxidations to large scale industrial production of commodity chemicals. However, many of these transformations can hardly be classified as organometallic reactions, since the catalysts (often simple metal salts) and the intermediates can be rather regarded as coordination complexes than organometallic compounds.

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