Carbon Dioxide Fixation and Reduction in Biological and Model Systems

1. Photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation ; 2. Partial reactions and chemical rescue of site-directed mutants ; 3. Rubisco as mechanistic probes ; 4. Elements of the structure of ribulose ; 5. Learning from Rubisco's mistakes ; 6. Tests and models of mechanisms for biotin-dependent carbon dioxide fixation ; 7. Chemistry of B12 derivations related to their roles in bacterial carbon dioxide fixation ; 8. Stoichiometric and catalytic activation of carbon dioxide on transition- metal complexes ; 9. Organometallic chemistry of carbon dioxide pertinent to catalysis ; 10. Catalytic additions of carbon dioxide adducts to alkynes ; 11. Activation and reduction of carbon dioxide to formylmethanofuran ; 12. Hydrogenatian of carbon dioxide by catalysts ; 13. Carbon dioxide as an organic building block ; 14. Electrochemical syntheses involving carbon dioxide ; 15. Photochemical electron transfer applied to the reduction of carbon dioxide ; 16. Room temperature catalytic and photocatalytic fixation of carbon dioxide ; 17. Retrodiction of carbon dioxide fixation towards a chemoautotropic origin of life ; 18. Structure - activity correlations in carbamoyl phosphate synthetases ; 19. How enzymes deal with carbon dioxide and bicarbonate ; 19. Cyanobacterial carbon dioxide concentrating mechanism ; 20. Molecular biology and biochemistry of carbon dioxide