{"id":5087,"date":"2010-10-06T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/06\/congratulations-to-heck-negish\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:33:11","slug":"congratulations-to-heck-negish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/06\/congratulations-to-heck-negish\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Heck, Negishi, and Suzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2010\/\">Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010<\/a> goes to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for giving people a reason to care about palladium. OK, it might not be the only reason&#8211; I&#8217;m not actually sure what palladium is used for other than organic synthesis and cold fusion&#8211; but it&#8217;s the context in which I&#8217;m most likely to hear the element mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t pay that much attention to the Chemistry prize, so my reaction to this was mild surprise that it hadn&#8217;t already won. Palladium catalyzed reactions turn up often enough when people are talking about making organic molecules for some reason or another that it seems like a really obvious winner, but it didn&#8217;t turn up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/nobel_prize_betting_pool_2.php\">betting pool<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This basically taps out my knowledge of the subject&#8211; I have no idea of the history of the reaction in question, or if these three are the appropriate winners or not. That&#8217;s what we have blog comments for, though, so if you have relevant knowledge, feel free to enlighten me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 goes to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for giving people a reason to care about palladium. OK, it might not be the only reason&#8211; I&#8217;m not actually sure what palladium is used for other than organic synthesis and cold fusion&#8211; but it&#8217;s the context in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/06\/congratulations-to-heck-negish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to Heck, Negishi, and Suzuki<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[553,33,72,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-in_the_news","category-life_science","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}