Enzymatic and Model Carboxylation and Reduction Reactions for Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Utilization of Carbon Dioxide as a Source of Carbon : a Challenge of Great Intellectual Significance for Scientists.- Market and Application of Merchant CO2.- Theoretical Studies of Carbon Dioxide Organometallic Reactivity.- The Organometallic Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Pertinent to Catalysis.- Catalytic Incorporation of CO2 for the Synthesis of Organic Compounds.- Photoreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate and Photo-oxidation of Carbon Monoxide to Carbon Dioxide by the Use of Transition Metal Complexes and Visible Light.- Electrochemical Syntheses Involving Carbon Dioxide.- Mammalian and Plant Carbonic Anhydrases: Structure, Function, Mechanism and Control.- Carbonic Anhydrases : the Mechanistic, Spectroscopic and Model Studies.- The Mechanism of Action of Carbonic Anhydrase.- Computer Simulation of Zinc-Containing Enzymes.- Mechanism of Carboxylation by Biotin Enzymes.- Carbamate Synthases and Kinases.- Carboxyphosphate: Predicted Chemical Properties, Synthesis and Role as an Intermediate in Enzymic Reactions.- Biological Utilization of Carbon Dioxide. Enzymic Catalysis Patterns Involving Biotin, ATP, and Bicarbonate.- Chemical Roles of B12-Derivatives in the Bacterial C1-Metabolism.- One-Carbon Metabolism of Anaerobic Bacteria : Challenge for Chemistry.- Increasing Photosynthesis by Genetic Manipulation: Difficulties and Prospects.- The Kinetic Properties of Ribulosebisphosphate Carboxylase.- Rubisco : Active-Site Characterization and Mechanistic Implications.- Structural and Functional Aspects of the Photosynthetic Fixation of Carbon Dioxide.- Coupling between the Light and Dark Reactions of Oxygen Evolution and CO2 Fixation in Photosynthesis: Early Experiments in Photosynthesis Revisited.- Conclusions.- List of Short Communications.- List of Participants.- Analytical index.- Appendix A Abstracts of lectures not available as full papers.- Appendix B Abstracts of short communications.