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Oxidation of alkyl benzenes by a flavin photooxidation catalyst on nanostructured metal-oxide films.

Prateek DongareIan MacKenzieDegao WangDavid A NicewiczThomas J Meyer
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2017)
We describe here a surface-bound, oxide-based procedure for the photooxidation of a family of aromatic hydrocarbons by a phosphate-bearing flavin mononucleotide (FMN) photocatalyst on high surface area metal-oxide films.
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