{"id":209444,"date":"2025-03-21T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/high-pressure-method-can-differentiate-proton-coupled-electron-transfer-mechanisms"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:08:14","slug":"high-pressure-method-can-differentiate-proton-coupled-electron-transfer-mechanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/high-pressure-method-can-differentiate-proton-coupled-electron-transfer-mechanisms","title":{"rendered":"High-pressure method can differentiate proton-coupled electron transfer mechanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-pressure-method-can-differentiate-proton-coupled-electron-transfer-mechanisms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Redox reactions form the basis of many fundamental processes of life. Without them, neither cellular respiration nor photosynthesis could take place. Redox reactions also play a crucial role in applications in the domains of chemistry, biochemistry, and the use of light for energy generation. Understanding the fundamental principles of these reactions is therefore important for driving forward new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Using an innovative method based on high pressures, a team led by LMU chemist Professor Ivana Ivanovi\u0107-Burmazovi\u0107 and Professor Dirk Guldi from FAU Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg has managed for the first time to differentiate two related reaction mechanisms. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41557-025-01772-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redox reactions form the basis of many fundamental processes of life. Without them, neither cellular respiration nor photosynthesis could take place. Redox reactions also play a crucial role in applications in the domains of chemistry, biochemistry, and the use of light for energy generation. Understanding the fundamental principles of these reactions is therefore important for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209444","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}