{"id":343768,"date":"2017-07-13T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T12:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=886d7d82f18dda4a3c3365ebe12aa6ae"},"modified":"2017-07-13T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T12:54:42","slug":"how-selenium-compounds-might-become-catalysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=343768","title":{"rendered":"How selenium compounds might become catalysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum have tested a new approach for activating chemical reactions based on the element selenium. They demonstrated that selenium can form bonds similar to those of hydrogen bonds, resulting in accelerated reactions. The exact mechanism is described by the team at the Chair of Organic Chemistry 1 in Bochum, including Prof Dr Stefan Huber and Patrick Wonner, in the journal Angewandte Chemie, in collaboration with Prof Dr Daniel Werz from Braunschweig University of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists at Ruhr-Universit&auml;t Bochum have tested a new approach for activating chemical reactions based on the element selenium. They demonstrated that selenium can form bonds similar to those of hydrogen bonds, resulting in accelerated reactions. The exact mechanism is described by the team at the Chair of Organic Chemistry 1 in Bochum, including Prof Dr Stefan Huber and Patrick Wonner, in the journal Angewandte Chemie, in collaboration with Prof Dr Daniel Werz from Braunschweig University of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343769,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343768\/revisions\/343769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}