Because of the high catalytic activities and substrate specificity, natural enzymes have been
widely used in industrial, medical, and biological fields, etc. Although promising, they often …

Naturally produced halogenated compounds are ubiquitous across all domains of life where
they perform a multitude of biological functions and adopt a diversity of chemical structures …

Marine biofouling—the colonization of small marine microorganisms on surfaces that are
directly exposed to seawater, such as ships' hulls—is an expensive problem that is currently …

The enzymatic generation of carbon–halogen bonds is a powerful strategy used by both
nature and synthetic chemists to tune the bioactivity, bioavailability and reactivity of …

Vanadium is a trace element, which may be beneficial and possibly essential in humans1
but certainly essential for some living organisms. 2r11 Metal ions and thus vanadium ions …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201603823 homoserine lactones (AHLs), a class of signaling
molecules involved in bacterial quorum sensing.[8–10] V-HPO in D. pulchra is located …

Biofilms adhering to surfaces have severe impacts on both public health and industry.
Environmentally friendly strategies for combating biofilms are needed due to the biosafety …

It is difficult to imagine organic chemistry without organo‐halogen compounds and the
molecular halogens needed for their preparation. The halogens have very different …

Vanadium compounds have attracted much attention because they have widely been used
for homogeneous, heterogeneous, industrial, and biological oxidation processes with alkyl …

In nature, halogenation is a strategy used to increase the biological activity of secondary
metabolites, compounds that are often effective as drugs. However, halides are not …