The Metal-Driven Biogeochemistry of Gaseous Compounds in the Environment - Kroneck, Peter M.H.; Sosa Torres, Martha E.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Preface -- The Early Earth Atmosphere and Early Life Catalysts -- Living on Acetylene. A Primordial Energy Source -- Carbon Monoxide. Toxic Gas and Fuel for Anaerobes and Aerobes: Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases -- Investigations of the Efficient Electrocatalytic Interconversions of Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide by Nickel-Containing Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases -- Understanding and Harnessing Hydrogenases. Biological Dihydrogen Catalysts -- Biochemistry of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase: The Nickel Metalloenzyme that Catalyzes the Final Step in Synthesis and the First Step in Anaerobic Oxidation of the Greenhouse Gas Methane -- Cleaving the N,N Triple Bond: The Transformation of Dinitrogen to Ammonia by Nitrogenases -- No Laughing Matter: The Unmaking of the Greenhouse Gas Dinitrogen Monoxide by Nitrous Oxide Reductase -- The Production of Ammonia by Multiheme Cytochromes c -- Hydrogen Sulfide: A Toxic Gas Produced by Dissimilatory Sulfate Reduction and Consumed by Microbial Oxidation -- Transformations of Dimethylsulfide -- Index.
Keywords: Life sciences; Medicine; Chemistry; Life Sciences, general; Biomedicine, general; Chemistry/Food Science, general