Using sunlight to power the photoredox system pyruvic acid and CO¬2 are converted into fumaric acid, by malate dehydrogenase and fumarase. Credit: Yutaka Amao, Osaka Metropolitan UniversityIn recent years, environmental problems caused by global warming have become more apparent due to greenhouse gases such as COis not reduced directly, but is bound to organic compounds which are converted to glucose or starch.
A research team led by Professor Yutaka Amao from the Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis and graduate student Mika Takeuchi, from the Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Science, have succeeded in synthesizing fumaric acid from CO, a raw material for plastics, powered—for the first time—by sunlight.
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