{"id":159383,"date":"2023-03-02T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/putting-carbon-dioxide-to-good-scientists-use-electrochemistry-to-convert-carbon-to-useful-molecules"},"modified":"2023-03-02T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:22:43","slug":"putting-carbon-dioxide-to-good-scientists-use-electrochemistry-to-convert-carbon-to-useful-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/putting-carbon-dioxide-to-good-scientists-use-electrochemistry-to-convert-carbon-to-useful-molecules","title":{"rendered":"Putting Carbon Dioxide to Good \u2014 Scientists Use Electrochemistry To Convert Carbon to Useful Molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/putting-carbon-dioxide-to-good-scientists-use-electrochemistry-to-convert-carbon-to-useful-molecules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A joint effort in chemistry has resulted in an innovative method for utilizing carbon dioxide in a positive \u2013 even beneficial \u2013 manner: through electrosynthesis, it is integrated into a series of organic molecules that play a crucial role in the development of pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p>During the process, the team made an innovative discovery. By altering the type of electrochemical reactor used, they were able to generate two distinct products, both of which are useful in medicinal chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s paper was recently published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>. The paper\u2019s co-lead authors are postdoctoral researchers Peng Yu and Wen Zhang, and Guo-Quan Sun of Sichuan University in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint effort in chemistry has resulted in an innovative method for utilizing carbon dioxide in a positive \u2013 even beneficial \u2013 manner: through electrosynthesis, it is integrated into a series of organic molecules that play a crucial role in the development of pharmaceuticals. During the process, the team made an innovative discovery. By altering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159383","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}