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WE have recently suggested1 that the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by catalase is brought about by the successive reduction of the catalase iron by the peroxide and its re-oxidation by molecular oxygen; the reaction proceeding according to the following equations:
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Keilin, D., and Hartree, E. F., Proc. Roy. Soc., B, 124, 397 (1938).
Keilin, D., and Hartree, E. F., Proc. Roy. Soc., B, 121, 173 (1936).
Johnson, F. H., and van Sehonvenburg, NATURE, 144, 634, (1939).
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KEILIN, D., HARTREE, E. Mechanism of Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide by Catalase. Nature 144, 787–788 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144787b0
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