{"id":161973,"date":"2023-04-12T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/rapid-alternating-polarity-brings-new-life-to-189-year-old-electrochemical-reaction"},"modified":"2023-04-12T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:22:21","slug":"rapid-alternating-polarity-brings-new-life-to-189-year-old-electrochemical-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/rapid-alternating-polarity-brings-new-life-to-189-year-old-electrochemical-reaction","title":{"rendered":"Rapid alternating polarity brings new life to 189-year-old electrochemical reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rapid-alternating-polarity-brings-new-life-to-189-year-old-electrochemical-reaction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200 years since its discovery, industry rarely uses the carbon\u2013carbon bond-forming Kolbe reaction \u2013 but now US researchers have shown it can sustainably make valuable substances.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Baran\u2019s team at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla has done away with high voltages and platinum electrodes best established in the Kolbe reaction. In doing so, the researchers have made it much more versatile. \u2018The most important feature is the ability to take waste or similarly priced products convert them into extremely high value materials,\u2019 Baran tells Chemistry World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 200 years since its discovery, industry rarely uses the carbon\u2013carbon bond-forming Kolbe reaction \u2013 but now US researchers have shown it can sustainably make valuable substances. Phil Baran\u2019s team at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla has done away with high voltages and platinum electrodes best established in the Kolbe reaction. In doing so, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161973","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=161973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}