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Published online 9 October 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011011-6
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Bugs speed green chemistry
Bacterial catalysis goes supercritical.
Bacteria could clean up industrial chemistry. Chemists in Japan have found that the bugs speed up an industrially useful reaction in the environmentally friendly solvent supercritical carbon dioxide1.
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