{"id":684154,"date":"2021-03-16T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=684154"},"modified":"2021-03-16T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:43:46","slug":"molecular-iodine-catalyzes-processes-for-antiviral-and-pharmaceutical-syntheses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=684154","title":{"rendered":"Molecular iodine catalyzes processes for antiviral and pharmaceutical syntheses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Synthesizing pharmaceuticals for cancer, viral diseases, and other medical conditions is slow work. A particularly challenging chemical transformation is to start with what&#8217;s known as an unactivated alkene\u2014a common molecular building block\u2014and end up with a vicinal diamine; i.e., installation of two nitrogen units into carbon\u2014carbon double bonds. The result is a chemical unit that&#8217;s present in medications for influenza and colorectal cancer.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-molecular-iodine-catalyzes-antiviral-pharmaceutical.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Molecular iodine catalyzes processes for antiviral and pharmaceutical syntheses<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthesizing pharmaceuticals for cancer, viral diseases, and other medical conditions is slow work. A particularly challenging chemical transformation is to start with what&#8217;s known as an unactivated alkene\u2014a common molecular&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684154","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684154\/revisions"}],"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=684154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}