{"id":240658,"date":"2026-07-11T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/visible-light-triggers-three-step-cascade-to-make-3d-drug-like-molecules"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:24:02","slug":"visible-light-triggers-three-step-cascade-to-make-3d-drug-like-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/visible-light-triggers-three-step-cascade-to-make-3d-drug-like-molecules","title":{"rendered":"Visible light triggers three-step cascade to make 3D drug-like molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visible-light-triggers-three-step-cascade-to-make-3d-drug-like-molecules.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by chemist Frank Glorius, a professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of M\u00fcnster, has developed a new light-driven reaction sequence. In this triple catalysis, one reaction step triggers the next like three dominoes in a row, toppling one after the other. The molecular transformations occur sequentially in a single reaction vessel. Such one-pot synthesis is considered an ideal process because it is particularly resource- and energy-efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by chemist Frank Glorius, a professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of M\u00fcnster, has developed a new light-driven reaction sequence. In this triple catalysis, one reaction step triggers the next like three dominoes in a row, toppling one after the other. The molecular transformations occur sequentially in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240658","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=240658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}