{"id":148741,"date":"2022-10-23T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-new-easier-and-safer-way-to-synthesize-medicines"},"modified":"2022-10-23T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:24:15","slug":"a-new-easier-and-safer-way-to-synthesize-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-new-easier-and-safer-way-to-synthesize-medicines","title":{"rendered":"A New, Easier and Safer Way To Synthesize Medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-easier-and-safer-way-to-synthesize-medicines3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carbenes are among the most adaptable building blocks in organic chemistry, but they may also be dangerously hot. Due to their explosivity in the lab, scientists often avoid using these very reactive molecules.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a new study that was just published in the journal <em>Science<\/em>, researchers from <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/ohio-state-university\/>The Ohio State University<\/a> describe a new, safer method to turn these short-lived, high-energy molecules into much more stable ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarbenes have an incredible amount of energy in them,\u201d said David Nagib, co-author of the study and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Ohio State. \u201cThe value of that is they can do chemistry that you just cannot do any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbenes are among the most adaptable building blocks in organic chemistry, but they may also be dangerously hot. Due to their explosivity in the lab, scientists often avoid using these very reactive molecules. However, in a new study that was just published in the journal Science, researchers from The Ohio State University describe a new, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148741","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}