{"id":237246,"date":"2026-05-15T22:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/sustainable-chemistry-iron-substitutes-noble-metals-in-catalytic-reactions"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:21:53","slug":"sustainable-chemistry-iron-substitutes-noble-metals-in-catalytic-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/sustainable-chemistry-iron-substitutes-noble-metals-in-catalytic-reactions","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable chemistry: Iron substitutes noble metals in catalytic reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sustainable-chemistry-iron-substitutes-noble-metals-in-catalytic-reactions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The production of many products used in everyday life and in industry, such as pharmaceuticals, plastics, and coatings, requires chemical catalysts, often expensive noble metals with limited availability. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are now presenting the first air-stable iron compound, which enables the direct use of iron(I) for catalysis and, unlike previous methods, does not require strong reducing agents. A first test yielded active iron catalysts.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.6c01660\" target=\"_blank\">A Simple, Air Stable Single-Ion Source of Iron(I)<\/a>,\u201d is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Catalysts are required to speed up chemical reactions or even make them possible at all. The catalysts generally used in industry are noble metals, such as rhodium, iridium, or palladium. They are highly effective for many applications, but at the same time expensive and rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The production of many products used in everyday life and in industry, such as pharmaceuticals, plastics, and coatings, requires chemical catalysts, often expensive noble metals with limited availability. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are now presenting the first air-stable iron compound, which enables the direct use of iron(I) for catalysis and, unlike [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237246","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=237246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}