Biocatalysed hydrogenation of nitro compounds to amines

Work from Kylie Vincent’s group is published in Nature Communications, describing a heterogeneous biocatalyst system for selective hydrogenation of nitro compounds to amines under mild H₂ pressure.

The reaction shows over 1.5 million catalyst turnovers and has applicability to a wide range of substituted nitroarenes. The catalyst system has been patented through OUI, and is already licensed to HydRegen.

Read more in Nature Communications, or in Kylie's Behind the Paper post on Nature's Research Communities blog.