In this study, the performance of the supported metallic oxide catalysts for catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with carbon monooxide as a reducing agent were investigated.
The important thing is that developers include reducing agents: chemicals that generally donate electrons to other compounds during a chemical reaction.
Jacobs was studying whether the TB drug isoniazid was being inactivated by the presence of a particular amino acid, cysteine, which in chemical terms acts as a reducing agent, by donating electrons.