Despite knowing that the active centres of many metalloprotein enzymes are iron porphyrin 'haem' complexes, chemists find them difficult to imitate. Now, the assembly of haem-like centres into a crystalline, stable, nanoporous array shows promise for biomimetic catalysis.
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Hupp, J. Towards artificial enzymes. Nature Chem 2, 432–433 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.678
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