{"id":244990,"date":"2026-10-06T22:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/cobalt-catalyst-delivers-99-yield-without-expensive-precious-metals"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:10:47","slug":"cobalt-catalyst-delivers-99-yield-without-expensive-precious-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/cobalt-catalyst-delivers-99-yield-without-expensive-precious-metals","title":{"rendered":"Cobalt Catalyst Delivers 99% Yield Without Expensive Precious Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cobalt-catalyst-delivers-99-yield-without-expensive-precious-metals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A cobalt catalyst may offer a more sustainable route to valuable chemical transformations when its oxidation state is carefully controlled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cobalt catalyst made from an abundant metal converted more than 99% of pyridine into the desired chemical product under ambient electrolysis conditions, according to researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/yokohama-national-university\/\">Yokohama National University<\/a>. Its performance depended not just on cobalt itself, but on maintaining the right balance between metallic cobalt and cobalt oxide during the reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The catalyst also selectively hydrogenated several other nitrogen-containing compounds, including quinolines, pyrazines, nitriles and nitroarenes. The approach could help reduce reliance on scarce and expensive platinum group metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cobalt catalyst may offer a more sustainable route to valuable chemical transformations when its oxidation state is carefully controlled. A cobalt catalyst made from an abundant metal converted more than 99% of pyridine into the desired chemical product under ambient electrolysis conditions, according to researchers at Yokohama National University. Its performance depended not just [\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-244990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244990","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=244990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}