{"id":142434,"date":"2022-07-18T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chemists-just-rearranged-atomic-bonds-in-a-single-molecule-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:43:00","slug":"chemists-just-rearranged-atomic-bonds-in-a-single-molecule-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chemists-just-rearranged-atomic-bonds-in-a-single-molecule-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Chemists Just Rearranged Atomic Bonds in a Single Molecule For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-just-rearranged-atomic-bonds-in-a-single-molecule-for-the-first-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So precise.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If chemists built cars, they\u2019d fill a factory with car parts, set it on fire, and sift from the ashes pieces that now looked vaguely car-like.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re dealing with car-parts the size of atoms, this is a perfectly reasonable process. Yet chemists yearn for ways to reduce the waste and make reactions far more precise.<\/p>\n<p>Chemical engineering has taken a step forward, with researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the University of Regensburg in Germany, and IBM Research Europe forcing a single molecule to undergo a series of transformations with a tiny nudge of voltage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So precise. If chemists built cars, they\u2019d fill a factory with car parts, set it on fire, and sift from the ashes pieces that now looked vaguely car-like. When you\u2019re dealing with car-parts the size of atoms, this is a perfectly reasonable process. Yet chemists yearn for ways to reduce the waste and make reactions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}