{"id":25602,"date":"2016-05-11T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/chemists-find-huge-shortcut-for-organic-synthesis-using-c-h-bonds"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:55:57","slug":"chemists-find-huge-shortcut-for-organic-synthesis-using-c-h-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/chemists-find-huge-shortcut-for-organic-synthesis-using-c-h-bonds","title":{"rendered":"Chemists find \u2018huge shortcut\u2019 for organic synthesis using C-H bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-find-huge-shortcut-for-organic-synthesis-using-c-h-bonds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemists have taken another major step in the quest to use carbon-hydrogen bonds to create new molecules, a strategy that aims to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis.<\/p>\n<p>The journal <i>Nature<\/i> is publishing the work by chemists at Emory University. They demonstrated the ability to selectively functionalize the unreactive carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds of an alkane without using a directing group, while also maintaining virtually full control of site selectivity and the three-dimensional shape of the <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecules<\/a> produced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe catalyst control we have found goes beyond what has been achieved before,\u201d says Huw Davies, an Emory professor of organic chemistry whose lab led the research. \u201cWe\u2019ve designed a catalyst that provides a huge shortcut for how chemists can turn a simple, abundant molecule into a much more complex, value-added molecule. We hope this gives people a fundamentally new view of what can be achieved through C-H functionalization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-05-chemists-huge-shortcut-synthesis-c-h.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;05-chemists-huge-shortcut-synthesis-c-h.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists have taken another major step in the quest to use carbon-hydrogen bonds to create new molecules, a strategy that aims to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis. The journal Nature is publishing the work by chemists at Emory University. They demonstrated the ability to selectively functionalize the unreactive carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds of an alkane [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25602","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50524,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25602\/revisions\/50524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}