{"id":180189,"date":"2024-01-10T05:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/using-electricity-scientists-find-promising-new-method-of-boosting-chemical-reactions"},"modified":"2024-01-10T05:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:25:30","slug":"using-electricity-scientists-find-promising-new-method-of-boosting-chemical-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/using-electricity-scientists-find-promising-new-method-of-boosting-chemical-reactions","title":{"rendered":"Using electricity, scientists find promising new method of boosting chemical reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-electricity-scientists-find-promising-new-method-of-boosting-chemical-reactions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electricity could be used to enhance a specific chemical reaction in the synthesis of prospective medicinal drugs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As the world moves away from gas towards electricity as a greener power source, the to-do list goes beyond cars. The vast global manufacturing network that makes everything from our batteries to our fertilizers needs to flip the switch, too.<\/p>\n<p>A study from UChicago chemists found a way to use electricity to boost a type of chemical reaction often used in synthesizing new candidates for pharmaceutical drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41929-023-01073-5\">Published Jan. 2 in<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41929-023-01073-5\">Nature Catalysis<\/a>, <\/em>the research is an advance in the field of electrochemistry and shows a path forward to designing and controlling reactions\u2014and making them more sustainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity could be used to enhance a specific chemical reaction in the synthesis of prospective medicinal drugs. As the world moves away from gas towards electricity as a greener power source, the to-do list goes beyond cars. The vast global manufacturing network that makes everything from our batteries to our fertilizers needs to flip the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180189","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\/180189","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}