{"id":1017,"date":"2022-09-01T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T08:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2023-12-26T17:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:46:03","slug":"new-publication-accelerated-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/2022\/09\/01\/new-publication-accelerated-ageing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pathways in Spontaneous Synthesis: Insights from Accelerated Ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the PhD work of Rhona Lonergan and the MSc work of Georgie Conway, the paper shows how these Fe(II) and Cu(II) complexes can be synthesised simply by placing the solid, crystalline reagents in contact.\u00a0 The importance of humidity and hygroscopy of the starting materials in these types of accelerated ageing reactions was demonstrated and the mechanism of the reaction was investigated in small-scale reactions using optical microscopy.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"https:\/\/chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/chem.202201823\">read the open access paper here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1020 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2022\/09\/AA-Bulk-241x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2022\/09\/AA-Bulk-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2022\/09\/AA-Bulk-768x957.png 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2022\/09\/AA-Bulk.png 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the PhD work of Rhona Lonergan and the MSc work of Georgie Conway, the paper shows how these Fe(II) and Cu(II) complexes can be synthesised simply by placing the solid, crystalline reagents in contact.\u00a0 The importance of humidity and hygroscopy of the starting materials in these types of accelerated ageing reactions was demonstrated and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-highlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}