{"id":230772,"date":"2026-02-07T05:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ucla-chemists-have-created-impossible-3d-bonds-that-shouldnt-exist"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:19:05","slug":"ucla-chemists-have-created-impossible-3d-bonds-that-shouldnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ucla-chemists-have-created-impossible-3d-bonds-that-shouldnt-exist","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Chemists Have Created \u201cImpossible\u201d 3D Bonds That Shouldn\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ucla-chemists-have-created-impossible-3d-bonds-that-shouldnt-exist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCLA chemists proved that some of chemistry\u2019s oldest rules can be broken\u2014and new molecules emerge when they are.<\/p>\n<p>Organic chemistry is built on well-known principles that describe how atoms connect, how chemical bonds form, and how molecules take shape. These rules are often treated as firm boundaries that define what structures are possible. Researchers at UCLA, however, are showing that some of these limits are more flexible than long assumed.<\/p>\n<p>Challenging a Century Old Rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA chemists proved that some of chemistry\u2019s oldest rules can be broken\u2014and new molecules emerge when they are. Organic chemistry is built on well-known principles that describe how atoms connect, how chemical bonds form, and how molecules take shape. These rules are often treated as firm boundaries that define what structures are possible. Researchers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230772","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}