About TAML®
TAML® catalysts are inventions belonging to Carnegie Mellon University that have the following useful properties:
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Activate one of Nature’s two principal oxidizing agents, hydrogen peroxide, to give alternatives to polluting chlorine-based technologies and totally new oxidation processes
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Water-soluble, easy to use, and work over broad pH range
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Lead to highly selective chemistry in commercial processes where selectivity is vital
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Amenable to modification for capturing novel selectivities
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Effective in minute concentrations, capable of more than 10,000 turnovers per hour
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Work well below the temperatures commonly encountered in chlorine-based counterpart processes: promise of large energy savings
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First “dial-a-lifetime” catalysts — the catalyst can be chosen such that it will perform the desired task and then destroy itself — very important original green design idea
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Current effective lifetimes over the family range (depending also on conditions) from minutes to hours to days
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Commercial developed version is comprised exclusively of the elements of life — no elemental toxicity — prototype is nontoxic by a variety of assays, including zebrafish developmental assays (80 nM–250 microM)
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Demand for activators should range across an array of large oxidation-centered fields leading to economies of scale in production and marketing costs