Alcohol dehydrogenase from the extreme halophile Haloferax volcanii (HvADH2) catalysed asymmetric reduction of a range of structurally diverse aromatic ketones with co-factor recycling.
Metal–organic framework-based palladium nanoparticles are found to be highly efficient multifunctional catalysts for the base-free aerobic oxidation of different aliphatic, aromatic and hetero-aromatic alcohols.