{"id":86183,"date":"2018-12-28T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/super-catalyst-turns-chemical-trash-into-treasure"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:44:16","slug":"super-catalyst-turns-chemical-trash-into-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/super-catalyst-turns-chemical-trash-into-treasure","title":{"rendered":"Super catalyst turns chemical \u2018trash\u2019 into treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-catalyst-turns-chemical-trash-into-treasure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The paper is the latest in a series demonstrating the ability to use a dirhodium catalyst to selectively functionalize C-H bonds in a streamlined manner, while also maintaining virtually full control of the three-dimensional shape of the molecules produced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest catalyst is so selective that it goes cleanly for just one C-H bond\u2014even though there are several C-H bonds very similar to it within the molecule,\u201d says senior author Huw Davies, professor of organic chemistry. \u201cThat was a huge surprise, even to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This dirhodium catalyst works on a substrate of tert-butyl cyclohexane, a hydrocarbon\u2014one of the simplest of organic molecules, consisting entirely of C-H bonds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/catalyst-carbon-hydrogen-bonds-1943932\/\">https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/catalyst-carbon-hydrogen-bonds-1943932\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper is the latest in a series demonstrating the ability to use a dirhodium catalyst to selectively functionalize C-H bonds in a streamlined manner, while also maintaining virtually full control of the three-dimensional shape of the molecules produced. \u201cThis latest catalyst is so selective that it goes cleanly for just one C-H bond\u2014even though [\u2026]<\/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-86183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86183","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=86183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}