{"id":178375,"date":"2023-12-15T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/computational-model-captures-the-elusive-transition-states-of-chemical-reactions"},"modified":"2023-12-15T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T19:27:09","slug":"computational-model-captures-the-elusive-transition-states-of-chemical-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/computational-model-captures-the-elusive-transition-states-of-chemical-reactions","title":{"rendered":"Computational model captures the elusive transition states of chemical reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computational-model-captures-the-elusive-transition-states-of-chemical-reactions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a chemical reaction, molecules gain energy until they reach what\u2019s known as the transition state \u2014 a point of no return from which the reaction must proceed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT chemists have developed a computational model that can rapidly predict the structure of the transition state of a reaction (left structure), if it is given the structure of a reactant (middle) and product (right).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a chemical reaction, molecules gain energy until they reach what\u2019s known as the transition state \u2014 a point of no return from which the reaction must proceed. MIT chemists have developed a computational model that can rapidly predict the structure of the transition state of a reaction (left structure), if it is given the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178375","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}