{"id":229823,"date":"2026-01-26T13:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-just-overturned-a-100-year-old-rule-of-chemistry-and-the-results-are-impossible"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:11:22","slug":"scientists-just-overturned-a-100-year-old-rule-of-chemistry-and-the-results-are-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-just-overturned-a-100-year-old-rule-of-chemistry-and-the-results-are-impossible","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just overturned a 100-year-old rule of chemistry, and the results are \u201cimpossible\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-overturned-a-100-year-old-rule-of-chemistry-and-the-results-are-impossible2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry\u2019s most famous \u201crules\u201d aren\u2019t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds\u2014structures long considered impossible\u2014the team is opening the door to entirely new kinds of chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry\u2019s most famous \u201crules\u201d aren\u2019t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds\u2014structures long considered impossible\u2014the team is opening the door to entirely new kinds of chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229823","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=229823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}