Many enzymes rely on iron porphyrin 'haem' centres to carry out important tasks in biology, in particular using their ability to bind small molecules such as O 2 and water.For example, the ...

In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team from the Friedrich Wöhler Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry in Göttingen introduced a novel approach for recycling polystyrene waste. Their ...

The key to this success is a powerful iron-based catalyst, an iron porphyrin complex that resembles hemoglobin. Its advantage over many other catalytically active metals is that iron is nontoxic ...

In 1992, Takuzo Aida encapsulated a porphyrin at the center of a cavity consisting of a dendrimer molecule. A porphyrin is a dye-type molecule, like the iron porphyrin that binds molecular oxygen in ...