{"id":246375,"date":"2026-11-02T23:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/iron-sulfur-and-purple-light-unlock-greener-carbon-carbon-bond-formation"},"modified":"2026-11-02T23:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:50:41","slug":"iron-sulfur-and-purple-light-unlock-greener-carbon-carbon-bond-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/iron-sulfur-and-purple-light-unlock-greener-carbon-carbon-bond-formation","title":{"rendered":"Iron, sulfur and purple light unlock greener carbon-carbon bond formation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Much of organic chemistry, including the type used to create and alter medicinal drugs, relies on modifying carbon bonds. Rice University\u2019s Julian West has been developing a less expensive, faster and more environmentally friendly way to catalyze these reactions, with a breakthrough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41929-026-01600-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Catalysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work is essentially that of molecular architects. In my lab, we are particularly interested in using inexpensive and easily available building blocks to build and modify organic compounds,\u201d said West, an assistant professor of chemistry and corresponding author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, we\u2019ve adapted our cheap and environmentally friendly method to precisely and specifically bind a carbon to other carbons, an essential reaction for making organic molecules.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of organic chemistry, including the type used to create and alter medicinal drugs, relies on modifying carbon bonds. Rice University\u2019s Julian West has been developing a less expensive, faster and more environmentally friendly way to catalyze these reactions, with a breakthrough published in the journal Nature Catalysis. \u201cOur work is essentially that of molecular [\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-246375","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\/246375","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=246375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}