• A major advance in the science of surface catalysis was the development of a method for determining the surface area of catalysts (and other materials) by measuring the multimolecular adsorption of nitrogen at liquid nitrogen temperatures or the adsorption of other gases close to their boiling points . (britannica.com)
  • At its core lies the versatility of complexes of zinc, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium (the so-called bio-metals): green catalysts able to perform both the polymerisation of cyclic esters and highly atom-efficient hydroelementation reactions will be designed. (europa.eu)
  • To predict the selectivity and reactivity of novel catalysts at industrially relevant conditions requires a detailed microkinetic mechanism, comprising many elementary reactions. (aiche.org)
  • Recognized experts in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, the authors present a comprehensive overview of the conceptual and practical aspects of non-noble metal catalysts. (wiley-vch.de)
  • Understanding chemical reactions, developing better catalysts, and engineering reacting systems is a core component of chemical engineering. (umich.edu)
  • Some systems of interest include dispersed metal ions on amorphous supports, metallic clusters supported on metal oxides, and homogeneous organometallic catalysts for a variety of important reactions. (umich.edu)
  • Current projects include autothermal reforming of hydrocarbons, solid oxide fuel cell anode catalysts, automotive emission control catalysis, photocatalysis, production of synthetic fuel via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, cellulosic biomass conversion into fuels and value added chemicals, and gas sensors. (umich.edu)
  • These very promising findings constitute a crucial step for process intensification of polyvinyl chloride production and exploring the potential of supported EuOCl catalysts in industrially-relevant reactions. (asu.edu)
  • In a discovery that could lead to the development of novel catalysts that do not rely on expensive rare metals, scientists have shown that the optimal binding energy can deviate from traditional calculations, which are based on equilibrium thermodynamics, at high reaction rates. (sciencedaily.com)
  • According to Ryuhei Nakamura, head of the Center for Sustainable Resource Center's Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team, "Based on this finding, we plan to look for new catalysts, using elements such as copper or nickel, that can push heterogeneous catalytic reactions forward but are less costly and more environmentally friendly than the current ones, which often require precious metals such as platinum and palladium. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Develop various selective C-C coupling reaction chemistries via a slate of catalysts to build the carbon chain length starting from furans and long-chain functionalized molecules, such as fatty acids or their derivatives. (udel.edu)
  • To combine the advantages of these biological systems with the reactivity of artificial chemical catalysts, chemists have devised sequential, concurrent, and cooperative chemoenzymatic reactions that combine enzymatic and artificial catalysts1-9. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, such reactions are difficult to develop because chemical and enzymatic catalysts generally operate in different media at different temperatures and can deactivate each other1-9. (bvsalud.org)
  • The goal of the investigations is to gain an increased understanding of the complex catalytic reactions, for applications in the production of technical catalysts to enhance the reaction rates and improve the selectivity. (lu.se)
  • The facilitation of biochemical reactions with the aid of naturally occurring catalysts such as ENZYMES. (bvsalud.org)
  • The two graphs above illustrate how the rate of reaction varies with pH for many enzymes. (docbrown.info)
  • When you increase substrate concentration to a certain level, where there are no free enzymes remaining to bond with them, adding more substrate will not make the reaction faster, so the order has become 0 with respect to substrate conc. (stackexchange.com)
  • I thought it would be 3 as that is the step that frees up more enzymes which could go on to catalyse more reactions. (stackexchange.com)
  • But surely this step won't free up more enzymes to catalyse reaction further? (stackexchange.com)
  • Many enzymes operate by general catalysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Enzymes catalyze reactions using general-acid and general-base catalysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Living organisms rely on simultaneous reactions catalysed by mutually compatible and selective enzymes to synthesize complex natural products and other metabolites. (bvsalud.org)
  • More generally, these results show that the compatibility between photocatalysts and enzymes enables chemoenzymatic processes beyond cofactor regeneration and provides a general strategy for converting stereoselective enzymatic reactions into stereoconvergent ones. (bvsalud.org)
  • Enzymes used for industrial catalysis (also called biocatalysts) have to meet a great number of requirements. (lu.se)
  • Often the enzymes also need to be modified to perform the exact required reaction, which might differ considerably from its original function. (lu.se)
  • Sometimes a whole system of different enzymes is needed to get the right reaction. (lu.se)
  • Eva Nordberg Karlsson works within the fields of enzymology and microbiology, with a focus on production and biomolecular development of carbohydrate-modifying enzymes for hydrolysis (oligo- and monosaccharides) and trans-glycosylation reactions (for glycoconjugates such as surfactants and antioxidants), using the carbohydrate polymers of the biomass as the starting material. (lu.se)
  • Based on grand canonical quantum mechanics calculations and the single-site Co atomic structure validated by in situ and ex situ spectroscopic probes, we have established a full description of the catalytic reaction kinetics for Co-TiO 2 as a function of applied potential, revealing an adsorbate evolution mechanism for the OER. (nature.com)
  • Reaction kinetics and response surface simulations were used to understand the design space required in order to maintain this dimer impurity within acceptable levels. (aiche.org)
  • Due to the accelerated gelation kinetics induced by increased reaction temperature and the specific function of sodium hypophosphite, the formation of hydrogels can be completed within 4 h. (osti.gov)
  • Herein, we demonstrate the utility of a continuous flow millifluidic chip reactor coated with a nanostructured gold catalyst as an effective platform for in situ investigation of the kinetics of catalytic reactions by taking 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) conversion as a model reaction. (lsu.edu)
  • The idea conceptualized in this paper can not only dramatically change the ability to probe the time-resolved kinetics of heterogeneous catalysis reactions but also used for investigating other chemical and biological catalytic processes, thereby making this a broad platform for probing reactions as they occur within continuous flow reactors. (lsu.edu)
  • In our work we always try to understand reaction mechanisms in as much detail as possible using, inter alia, kinetics measurements and spectroscopic identification of inter-mediates. (lu.se)
  • Two competing proposals have been made concerning the mechanism of catalytic reactions at surfaces, and it has not been possible to choose between them. (britannica.com)
  • Liu, Yinghao (2011): Organocatalyzed Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction: Mechanism and Catalysis. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • We performed computational research to investigate the mechanism by which cyclodextrins (CDs) catalyze Diels-Alder reactions between 9-anthracenemethanol and N-cyclohexylmaleimide. (biorxiv.org)
  • This computational work sheds light on the mechanism of the catalytic reaction by cyclodextrins and introduces new perspectives of supramolecular catalysis. (biorxiv.org)
  • Our recently developed Reaction Mechanism Generator for Heterogeneous Catalysis (RMG-Cat) [3], built upon the open-source RMG software primarily used for gas-phase pyrolysis and combustion [1,2], can provide such mechanisms ab inito: the user supplies just the initial conditions (eg. (aiche.org)
  • Finally, an array of chemical and electrochemical studies mechanistically indicates that electrochemical C−C cross-coupling reaction proceeds through an unconventional radical trans-metalation mechanism. (chemrxiv.org)
  • Pt‐Au clusters are proposed to be responsible for the increased reactivity in the second step, that is, the intermolecular nucleophilic addition which occurs through an outer‐sphere mechanism by hybrid homogeneous‐heterogeneous catalysis. (uea.ac.uk)
  • However, existing Ni catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, despite success in organic synthesis, are still subject to the use of air-sensitive nucleophiles (i.e. (chemrxiv.org)
  • The third chapter of the book includes the advances achieved in enantioselective nickel-catalysed cross-coupling reactions since 2004, well demonstrating that nickel is emerging as an extraordinarily versatile catalyst for asymmetric cross-coupling reactions of a wide range of coupling partners. (rsc.org)
  • Preparation of ZnCl2-Modified Ion Exchange Resin and Its Catalytic Activity for Esterification of Ethanol and Acetic Acid under Microwave[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis , 2010. (alfa-chemistry.com)
  • In the development of biofuels, Professor Fei Wen and her team rely on enzymatic catalysis to degrade biomass to sugars, which can be fermented. (umich.edu)
  • Cooperative asymmetric reactions combining photocatalysis and enzymatic catalysis. (bvsalud.org)
  • But asymmetric photoredox catalysis could certainly be useful in the field of synthesis - for example, in the production of drugs or fragrances. (mpg.de)
  • In particular, an impressive number of highly efficient asymmetric versions of the Negishi reaction involving a range of activated and non-activated secondary halides have been successfully developed under catalysis with various chiral nickel complexes, providing excellent enantioselectivities in almost all cases, which has considerably expanded the scope of these C-C bond-formation methodologies. (rsc.org)
  • Catalysis research in Professor Goldsmith's group is focused on applying first-principles modeling (e.g., density-functional theory and molecular dynamics) and predictive theories to gain a deeper understanding of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic processes for natural gas conversion, pollution reduction, and energy generation. (umich.edu)
  • Scientists of the department of Homogeneous Catalysis have published a new paper with Science. (mpg.de)
  • PhD student in the Department of Homogeneous Catalysis receives the 2022 Thiel Award for the best research publication of the past year. (mpg.de)
  • They include reactions between gases or liquids or both at the surface of a solid catalyst . (britannica.com)
  • Since heterogeneously catalyzed reactions occur on the surface of the catalyst, the rates of such reactions are proportional to the accessible surface area of the catalyst. (britannica.com)
  • Dimethyl-β-CD was a better catalyst for this specific reaction than β-CD because of its stronger van der Waals interaction with the pre-organized reactants and better performance in reducing the activation energy. (biorxiv.org)
  • This reaction occurs using potassium hydroxide as a catalyst, for example at 100 °C [ 8 ], followed by extraction with diethylether, washing and drying finally giving 73% yield. (springer.com)
  • Catalysis research in Professor Johannes Schwank's lab is focused on correlations between the catalyst structure, composition and catalytic function in reactions of industrial importance. (umich.edu)
  • In specific acid catalysis, protonated solvent is the catalyst. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therefore, as a new type of environmentally friendly green catalyst, ion exchange resin is more and more widely used in the esterification reaction process.In addition to the ionic resin itself can be used as a catalyst, it can also be used for the esterification reaction in the form of a synthetic catalyst by supporting a common catalyst on the ionic resin. (alfa-chemistry.com)
  • Determining the optimal binding energies for heterogeneous chemical reactions -- usually meaning that the reactant is in the gas or liquid phase while the catalyst is a solid -- is critical for many aspects of modern society, as we rely on such reactions for processes as diverse as the production of fertilizers and plastics. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Probing catalytic reactions on a catalyst surface in real time is a major challenge. (lsu.edu)
  • Reported here is a Pt‐Au heterobimetallic catalyst system for the synthesis of a family of multi‐heteroaromatic structures through tandem cyclization/C−X coupling reaction. (uea.ac.uk)
  • The central objective of Professor Suljo Linic's lab is the development of predictive theories of surface chemistry related to heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis. (umich.edu)
  • Photocatalysis enables chemical reactions to take place with the help of light - for example, in the leaves of plants, but also in the production of drugs,' explains Benjamin List, director at the Max-Planck-Institute. (mpg.de)
  • Highly effective acid-catalysed reactions of amines with dimethyl carbonate (DMC) have been conducted with significant yields and selectivity of carboxymethylation or methylation products. (york.ac.uk)
  • At 1.0 equivalent, both promoted excellent conversion and selectivity of primary aliphatic amines at 90 °C. In addition, they were easily recovered and reused for at least four additional reactions without significant loss of efficiency with consistent conversions and selectivity. (york.ac.uk)
  • Acid-catalysed DMC reactions of amines may expand the substrate scope and offer new opportunities for developing sustainable organic synthetic methodologies. (york.ac.uk)
  • Owing to these constraints, the vast majority of cooperative chemoenzymatic processes that have been reported over the past 30 years can be divided into just two categories chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolutions of racemic alcohols and amines , and enzymatic reactions requiring the simultaneous regeneration of a cofactor2,4,5. (bvsalud.org)
  • The catalytic reactions we seek to understand are CO oxidation, CH4 oxidation, NH3 oxidation, CO2 reduction and CO hydrogenation. (lu.se)
  • It follows from such considerations that whereas physical adsorptions, which parallel the ease of liquefaction of the adsorbed substance, occur spontaneously, chemisorption, which involves the making and breaking of chemical bonds, often requires activation energies (energy needed to initiate reactions) as do uncatalyzed chemical processes. (britannica.com)
  • Reaction networks provide complete mechanistic understanding of catalytic processes, although they can be highly complex and thus very challenging to obtain. (nature.com)
  • This volume documents developments in the study of catalysis relating to organic synthesis and its application in industrial processes. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • Heterogeneous chemical reactions are used in many industrial processes. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Cooperative chemoenzymatic reactions consist of interconnected processes that generate products in yields and selectivities that cannot be obtained when the two reactions are carried out sequentially with their respective substrates2,7. (bvsalud.org)
  • note = "KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2023-03-01 Acknowledgements: This work has been finically supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, grant number 456582392) and by Leibniz institute for catalysis e.V (LIKAT Rostock). (edu.sa)
  • The structure of the protein enzyme can depends on how acid or alkaline the reaction medium is, that is, it is pH dependent . (docbrown.info)
  • Current research projects involve electrocatalysis in alkaline and acid media for low temperature fuel cells and electrolyzers, H 2 O and CO 2 electrolysis using solid oxide electrolysis cells, energy storage in alkaline metal air batteries, hydrodeoxygenation of biomass-derived feedstock, heterogeneous catalytic pathways for recycling of plastic waste, thermal catalytic reduction of CO 2 to chemicals/fuels, heterogeneous catalysis for emission control. (umich.edu)
  • In acid catalysis and base catalysis, a chemical reaction is catalyzed by an acid or a base. (wikipedia.org)
  • In these reactions, the conjugate acid of the carbonyl group is a better electrophile than the neutral carbonyl group itself. (wikipedia.org)
  • Depending on the chemical species that act as the acid or base, catalytic mechanisms can be classified as either specific catalysis and general catalysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Acid catalysis is mainly used for organic chemical reactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Two kinds of acid catalysis are recognized, specific acid catalysis and general acid catalysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • for example, in the acid catalysed aldol reaction. (wikipedia.org)
  • In general acid catalysis all species capable of donating protons contribute to reaction rate acceleration. (wikipedia.org)
  • Reactions in which proton transfer is rate-determining exhibit general acid catalysis, for example diazonium coupling reactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • When keeping the pH at a constant level but changing the buffer concentration a change in rate signals a general acid catalysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • When reactions are conducted in nonpolar media, this kind of catalysis is important because the acid is often not ionized. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therefore, cation exchange resin can replace the esterification reaction catalyzed by H 2 SO 4 or HCl.The cation exchange resin was used to catalyze the esterification reaction of valeric acid and methanol, and the mass transfer effect was found to be negligible. (alfa-chemistry.com)
  • Green metrics evaluation for the silica sulfuric acid-catalysed reaction highlighted the sustainability features of the process. (york.ac.uk)
  • With a very high molar proportion of fatty acid to saccharide when compared to the other studies, the authors suggested that increasing the proportion of fatty acid could negatively affect the lipase conformation due to an acidification of the reaction medium. (researchgate.net)
  • The reactivity of alcohol for elimination reaction is tertiary alcohol gt secondary school gt Primary alcohol. (doubtnut.com)
  • Heterobimetallic catalysis offers new opportunities for reactivity and selectivity but still presents challenges, and only a few metal combinations have been explored so far. (uea.ac.uk)
  • Photocatalytic reactions proceed via high-energy intermediates, and controlling the selectivity of their reactions has been difficult. (mpg.de)
  • Other reactions relevant to aldol condensation, namely self-condensation of cyclopentanone and valeraldehyde, have been also investigated. (springer.com)
  • Typical reactions catalyzed by proton transfer are esterifications and aldol reactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The reaction leads to the formation of seven- and eight-membered siloxycycles in excellent yields which could be further converted into the corresponding allylic alcohols upon oxidation. (edu.sa)
  • The team performed a new set of calculations, based on reaction kinetic modeling, that take this discrepancy into account, and calculated new optimal binding energies for hydrogen oxidation, which uses heterogeneous catalysis, finding that the calculations gave different values at high reaction rates. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We have investigated the reaction between CO and preadsorbed O on a stepped Rh(553) surface, and show that CO oxidation indeed occurs faster than on the flat Rh(111) surface at the same temperature. (lu.se)
  • reactant composition, temperature, pressure) and the software predicts all the possible reactions, estimates the thermochemical and kinetic parameters, solves the governing equations, and decides which reaction pathways to include and explore further. (aiche.org)
  • In order to pursue this research approach, we have a stimulating working environment within the recently opened £350K Catalysis Design Laboratory at the School of Engineering, equipped with state of the art facilities for synthesis, reaction testing and characterization. (ed.ac.uk)
  • In looking for new catalysis we also develop the basic organometallic chemistry of e.g. pincer ligands and complexes. (lu.se)
  • In particular, photoredox catalysis affords facile access to a plethora of transformations that were previously thought to be impossible. (beilstein-journals.org)
  • New approaches to the development of chemoenzymatic reactions are needed to enable valuable chemical transformations beyond this scope. (bvsalud.org)
  • abstract = "Herein we report an intramolecular endo-selective Heck reaction of iodomethylsilyl ethers of phenols and alkenols. (edu.sa)
  • Non-Noble Metal Catalysis: Molecular Approaches and Reactions is an indispensable source of up-to-date information for catalytic chemists, organic chemists, industrial chemists, organometallic chemists, and those seeking to broaden their knowledge of catalytic chemistry. (wiley-vch.de)
  • Organometallic aryl-CuIII species have been proposed as key intermediates in Ullmann-type reactions. (udg.edu)
  • The work in the group is in the general field of organotransition metal chemistry and the goal is to find and develop organometallic reactions with possible applications in catalysis. (lu.se)
  • Important advances have also been made in the area of enantioselective nickel-catalysed reductive coupling reactions in the last decade. (rsc.org)
  • Benchmarking hydrogen evolving reaction and oxygen evolving reaction electrocatalysts for solar water splitting devices. (nature.com)
  • Hydrogen bonds (Hbonds) between N-cyclohexylmaleimide and the hydroxyl groups of cyclodextrins were suggested to play an important role in the catalysis.However, our free energy calculations and molecular dynamics simulations showed that these Hbonds are not stable, and quantum mechanics calculations suggested that the reaction is not promoted by these Hbonds. (biorxiv.org)
  • One area of particular interest is dehydrogenation reactions, e.g. in the framework of hydrogen storage. (lu.se)
  • The reaction rate is proportional to the concentration of the protonated solvent molecules SH+. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) reactions of arylaldehydes with methyl vinyl ketone, it was observed that in the presence of a catalytic amount of a chiral phosphine Lewis base (CPLB) bearing multiple phenol groups, such as CPLB1 (10 mol %), the corresponding MBH adducts could be obtained in moderate to good yields with low to moderate ee's (4-45% ee) at ambient temperature (10 degrees C) in THF. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • In addition, the first enantioselective versions of the Kumada, Hiyama, and Suzuki reactions were recently achieved with excellent enantioselectivities. (rsc.org)
  • The utilization of light to induce or accelerate a chemical reaction is undoubtedly one of the most promising and sustainable fields in modern organic chemistry. (beilstein-journals.org)
  • During a chemical reaction involving the difluoromethylation of hydroxychromenone, a problematic dimer impurity was observed. (aiche.org)
  • This Perspective discusses machine learning approaches for heterogeneous catalysis and classifies them in terms of their interpretability. (nature.com)
  • Computational chemistry has become an increasingly common part of catalysis research. (nature.com)
  • Research at Michigan in this increasingly significant area includes biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals, electrochemical reactions, plasma chemistry, petroleum production, biochemical engineering, environmental catalysis, fuel cells, CO2 capture and conversion. (umich.edu)
  • Alfa Chemistry provides you with ester reaction design services, including esterification, transesterification and ester hydrolysis reactions. (alfa-chemistry.com)
  • Alfa Chemistry designs professional synthetic routes for your esterification reactions. (alfa-chemistry.com)
  • Reaxys enables you to search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data.Being based on the CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases Reaxys has a long history beginning with chemical data from 1771. (lu.se)
  • Professor Nikolla and her group focus on studying issues related to heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis for energy and chemical conversion/storage. (umich.edu)
  • Catalysis research in the Singh Lab focuses on understanding heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis through experimental rate measurements, spectroscopy and adsorption measurements. (umich.edu)
  • The N -hydroxyarylamines undergo ac- id-catalysed reactions with DNA to form a variety of DNA adducts. (who.int)
  • In this study, the activation energy and thermodynamic properties of immobilized enzyme catalysed transesterification reactions were evaluated based on the enzyme substrate transition theory. (scirp.org)
  • Based on the present work and published literatures, the activation energy of enzyme-catalysed transesterification reactions were found to be lower than the chemical-catalysed and non-catalyzed transesterification reactions. (scirp.org)
  • The thermodynamic properties of immobilized enzyme-catalysed transesterification reaction were found to be Gibbs free energy (ΔG = -1.02 kcal/mol), enthalpy (ΔH = 544 cal/mol) and entropy (ΔS = 5.19 cal/Kmol). (scirp.org)
  • R. Pogaku, J. Raman and G. Ravikumar, "Evaluation of Activation Energy and Thermodynamic Properties of Enzyme-Catalysed Transesterification Reactions," Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science , Vol. 2 No. 1, 2012, pp. 150-154. (scirp.org)
  • These are known as heterogeneous catalytic reactions. (britannica.com)
  • Efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are paramount to the development of electrochemical devices for clean energy and fuel conversion. (nature.com)
  • The broad reaction scope and good yields of the Ni-catalyzed electrochemical coupling reaction were confirmed by 48 examples of aryl/β-styrenyl chloride/bromide and benzylic trifluoroborates. (chemrxiv.org)
  • Furthermore, this electrochemical C−C cross-coupling reaction was demonstrated at gram-scale in a flow-cell electrolyzer for practical industrial adoption. (chemrxiv.org)
  • This has previously limited stereoselective photoredox reactions to special substrates amenable to that second activation mode. (mpg.de)
  • Non-Noble Metal Catalysis provides an authoritative survey of the field, from fundamental concepts and computational methods to industrial applications and reaction classes. (wiley-vch.de)
  • Combined Computational and Experimental Study on [5 + 2] Cycloaddition of 2-Trifluoromethylated Oxidopyrylium Species Leading to 1-(Trifluoromethyl)-8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]oct-3-en-2-ones. (acs.org)
  • This Focus issue features a collection of content dedicated to machine learning and its potential impact on the field of catalysis. (nature.com)
  • The most cited articles from Catalysis Communications published since 2020, extracted from Scopus . (elsevier.com)
  • Be able to interpret graphs of enzyme reaction rate versus pH, to find the optimum pH. (docbrown.info)
  • Why doesn't enzyme reaction rate rise linearly with substrate concentration? (stackexchange.com)
  • C-Terminal modification of peptides and proteins using organophotoredox catalysis. (beilstein-journals.org)
  • Trypsin is a protease enzyme from the pancreas that breaks down proteins (peptides) in the alkaline conditions (~pH 8.5) of the smaller intestine, so its optimum rate of reaction is around that value. (docbrown.info)
  • This insight can provide ways to optimize the shape of the nanoparticles to further improve the activity of certain reactions. (lu.se)
  • Here we report a class of cooperative chemoenzymatic reaction that combines photocatalysts that isomerize alkenes with ene- reductases that reduce carbon - carbon double bonds to generate valuable enantioenriched products. (bvsalud.org)
  • This is enzyme and substrate concentration specific, since the reaction rate depends on the reaction rate constant k that depends on the enzyme. (stackexchange.com)
  • This means that the photocatalyst absorbs light and takes up an electron from the substrate, i.e. a reaction partner. (mpg.de)