{"id":217928,"date":"2025-07-15T09:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-create-the-impossible-new-compound-challenges-fundamental-principle-of-chemistry"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:08:33","slug":"scientists-create-the-impossible-new-compound-challenges-fundamental-principle-of-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-create-the-impossible-new-compound-challenges-fundamental-principle-of-chemistry","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create the Impossible: New Compound Challenges Fundamental Principle of Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-the-impossible-new-compound-challenges-fundamental-principle-of-chemistry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once thought unlikely, this new finding in coordination chemistry could lead to promising advances in catalysis and materials science.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 100 years, the widely accepted 18-electron rule has been a foundational guideline in organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/okinawa-institute-of-science-and-technology-graduate-university\/\">Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)<\/a> have synthesized a new organometallic compound that challenges this principle. They developed a stable 20-electron version of ferrocene, an iron-based metal-organic complex, which could open new directions in chemical research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many transition metal complexes, they are most stable when surrounded by 18 formal valence electrons. This is a chemical rule of thumb on which many key discoveries in catalysis and materials science are based,\u201d said Dr. Satoshi Takebayashi, lead author of the paper published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once thought unlikely, this new finding in coordination chemistry could lead to promising advances in catalysis and materials science. For more than 100 years, the widely accepted 18-electron rule has been a foundational guideline in organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have synthesized a new organometallic compound that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217928","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}