Selective gas phase hydrogenation of p-nitrobenzonitrile to p-aminobenzonitrile over zirconia supported gold

We acknowledge the contribution of Dr. N. Perret to this work. EPSRC support for free access to the TEM/SEM facility at the University of St. Andrews and financial support to Dr. X. Wang and Y. Hao through the Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS) are also acknowledged.

Biological fluorination from the sea : discovery of a SAM-dependent nucleophilic fluorinating enzyme from the marine-derived bacterium Streptomyces xinghaiensis NRRL B24674

We thank Prof. David O’Hagan and Dr Qingzhi Zhang (University of St Andrews, UK) for their helpful discussion and for providing the synthetic 50 -FDA sample. This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81503086), a starting funding (No. 20140520) from Tianjin University of Science & Technology, a research funding of “1000 Talents Plan” of Tianjin (to LM) and Foundation of Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology of Ministry of Education and Tianjin Key Lab of Industrial Microbiology (No. 2015IM106)