{"id":171355,"date":"2023-09-05T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-synthesize-new-organometallic-sandwich-compound-capable-of-holding-more-electrons"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:22:24","slug":"scientists-synthesize-new-organometallic-sandwich-compound-capable-of-holding-more-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-synthesize-new-organometallic-sandwich-compound-capable-of-holding-more-electrons","title":{"rendered":"Scientists synthesize new organometallic \u2018sandwich\u2019 compound capable of holding more electrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-synthesize-new-organometallic-sandwich-compound-capable-of-holding-more-electrons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organometallic compounds, molecules made up of metal atoms and organic molecules, are often used to accelerate chemical reactions and have played a significant role in advancing the field of chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Metallocenes, a type of organometallic compound, are known for their versatility and special \u201csandwich\u201d structure. Their discovery was a significant contribution to the field of organometallic chemistry and led to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973 to the scientists who discovered and explained their sandwich structure.<\/p>\n<p>The versatility of metallocenes is due to their ability to \u201csandwich\u201d many different elements to form a variety of compounds. They can be used in various applications, including the production of polymers, glucometers\u2014used to measure the amount of glucose in the blood, perovskite <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a>, and as a catalyst, a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed or changed by the reaction itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organometallic compounds, molecules made up of metal atoms and organic molecules, are often used to accelerate chemical reactions and have played a significant role in advancing the field of chemistry. Metallocenes, a type of organometallic compound, are known for their versatility and special \u201csandwich\u201d structure. Their discovery was a significant contribution to the field of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171355","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=171355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}