{"id":244697,"date":"2026-09-30T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/fine-tuning-cobalt-for-cleaner-chemical-transformations"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:05:53","slug":"fine-tuning-cobalt-for-cleaner-chemical-transformations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/fine-tuning-cobalt-for-cleaner-chemical-transformations","title":{"rendered":"Fine-tuning cobalt for cleaner chemical transformations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fine-tuning-cobalt-for-cleaner-chemical-transformations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finding alternatives to precious metals in chemical manufacturing may be less like sourcing a substitute and more like tuning an instrument already in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Yokohama National University scientists have found that an earth-abundant cobalt catalyst can selectively hydrogenate nitrogen-containing compounds when the balance between metallic cobalt and cobalt oxide is carefully tuned. Their findings could allow for more sustainable approaches to chemical manufacturing that do not depend on precious metals.<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/jacs.6c12207\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding alternatives to precious metals in chemical manufacturing may be less like sourcing a substitute and more like tuning an instrument already in hand. Yokohama National University scientists have found that an earth-abundant cobalt catalyst can selectively hydrogenate nitrogen-containing compounds when the balance between metallic cobalt and cobalt oxide is carefully tuned. Their findings could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244697","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}