{"id":696376,"date":"2021-07-19T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696376"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:05:11","slug":"breaking-the-c-h-bonds-in-hydrocarbons-to-synthesize-complex-organic-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696376","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the C\u2013H bonds in hydrocarbons to synthesize complex organic molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The carbon\u2013hydrogen bonds in alkanes\u2014particularly those at the ends of the molecules, where each carbon has three hydrogen atoms bound to it\u2014are very hard to &#8220;crack&#8221; if you want to replace the hydrogen atoms with other atoms. Methane (CH4) and ethane (CH3CH3) are made up, exclusively, of such tightly bound hydrogen atoms. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of researchers has now described how they break these bonds while forming new carbon\u2013nitrogen bonds (amidation).&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-07-ch-bonds-hydrocarbons-complex-molecules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Breaking the C\u2013H bonds in hydrocarbons to synthesize complex organic molecules<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carbon\u2013hydrogen bonds in alkanes\u2014particularly those at the ends of the molecules, where each carbon has three hydrogen atoms bound to it\u2014are very hard to &#8220;crack&#8221; if you want to&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-696376","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\/696376","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=696376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696376\/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=696376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}