"This book is very well compiled and covers key information regarding small molecules that have an important impact in our environment. ... Relevant information is supported by high-quality illustrations and figures, allowing the reader to follow discussions about mechanisms of action, structure and function of metal-active sites, biological cycles or electron pathways. ... This book will be an excellent acquisition for chemistry libraries and for researchers and students interested on bioinorganic chemistry, biochemistry or inorganic chemistry." (Norah Barba-Behrens, Transition Metal Chemistry, Vol. 41, 2016)

• Preface.- The Early Earth Atmosphere and Early Life Catalysts.- Living on Acetylene. A Primordial Energy Source.- Carbon Monoxide. Toxic Gas and Fuel for Anaerobes and Aerobes: Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases.- Investigations of the Efficient Electrocatalytic Interconversions of Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide by Nickel-Containing Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases.- Understanding and Harnessing Hydrogenases. Biological Dihydrogen Catalysts.- Biochemistry of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase: The Nickel Metalloenzyme that Catalyzes the Final Step in Synthesis and the First Step in Anaerobic Oxidation of the Greenhouse Gas Methane.- Cleaving the N,N Triple Bond: The Transformation of Dinitrogen to Ammonia by Nitrogenases.- No Laughing Matter: The Unmaking of the Greenhouse Gas Dinitrogen Monoxide by Nitrous Oxide Reductase.- The Production of Ammonia by Multiheme Cytochromes c.- Hydrogen Sulfide: A Toxic Gas Produced by Dissimilatory Sulfate Reduction and Consumed by Microbial Oxidation.- Transformations of Dimethylsulfide.- Index.

"This book is very well compiled and covers key information regarding small molecules that have an important impact in our environment. ... Relevant information is supported by high-quality illustrations and figures, allowing the reader to follow discussions about mechanisms of action, structure and function of metal-active sites, biological cycles or electron pathways. ... This book will be an excellent acquisition for chemistry libraries and for researchers and students interested on bioinorganic chemistry, biochemistry or inorganic chemistry." (Norah Barba-Behrens, Transition Metal Chemistry, Vol. 41, 2016)

• Preface.- The Early Earth Atmosphere and Early Life Catalysts.- Living on Acetylene. A Primordial Energy Source.- Carbon Monoxide. Toxic Gas and Fuel for Anaerobes and Aerobes: Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases.- Investigations of the Efficient Electrocatalytic Interconversions of Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide by Nickel-Containing Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases.- Understanding and Harnessing Hydrogenases. Biological Dihydrogen Catalysts.- Biochemistry of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase: The Nickel Metalloenzyme that Catalyzes the Final Step in Synthesis and the First Step in Anaerobic Oxidation of the Greenhouse Gas Methane.- Cleaving the N,N Triple Bond: The Transformation of Dinitrogen to Ammonia by Nitrogenases.- No Laughing Matter: The Unmaking of the Greenhouse Gas Dinitrogen Monoxide by Nitrous Oxide Reductase.- The Production of Ammonia by Multiheme Cytochromes c.- Hydrogen Sulfide: A Toxic Gas Produced by Dissimilatory Sulfate Reduction and Consumed by Microbial Oxidation.- Transformations of Dimethylsulfide.- Index.