{"id":242452,"date":"2026-08-09T17:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/chemists-set-electrons-free-and-break-a-decades-old-chemistry-barrier"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:10:21","slug":"chemists-set-electrons-free-and-break-a-decades-old-chemistry-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/chemists-set-electrons-free-and-break-a-decades-old-chemistry-barrier","title":{"rendered":"Chemists set electrons free and break a decades-old chemistry barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-set-electrons-free-and-break-a-decades-old-chemistry-barrier.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemists have developed a catalyst that breaks a long-standing rule governing which molecules receive electrons during chemical reactions. By releasing electrons directly into solution, the technique could unlock reactions\u2014and potentially useful new molecules\u2014that were previously out of reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists have developed a catalyst that breaks a long-standing rule governing which molecules receive electrons during chemical reactions. By releasing electrons directly into solution, the technique could unlock reactions\u2014and potentially useful new molecules\u2014that were previously out of reach.<\/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-242452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242452","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=242452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}