1. Institut für Anorganische Chemie, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52056 Aachen (Germany);2. Lehrstuhl für Biotechnologie, RWTH Aachen University, Worringer Weg 1, 52074 Aachen (Germany)
Abstract:
A β‐barrel protein hybrid catalyst was prepared by covalently anchoring a Grubbs–Hoveyda type olefin metathesis catalyst at a single accessible cysteine amino acid in the barrel interior of a variant of β‐barrel transmembrane protein ferric hydroxamate uptake protein component A (FhuA). Activity of this hybrid catalyst type was demonstrated by ring‐opening metathesis polymerization of a 7‐oxanorbornene derivative in aqueous solution.