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	Podcast:		Science Nation
	Episode:		New Organics
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:03:29
	Publish Date:		2014-12-10 23:00:00
	Description:		NSF's Center for Selective C-H Functionalization hopes to trim the cost and environmental impact of pharmaceuticals, agrichemicals and smart materials. Up until now, chemists who want to design breakthrough drugs, formulate better agrichemicals, and develop new smart materials have designed their products using long-established laboratory methods. But, that's about to change. With support from the National Science Foundation, organic chemist Huw Davies and his colleagues at Emory University have brought together an all-star team, including research faculty and students from universities around the U.S. and the world, to create the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CCHF). Their goal is to reinvent how chemicals are made! C-H Functionalization has the potential to impact the way in which we construct all organic molecules and hence the chemistry that underpins much of modern medicine and manufacturing. By removing the field's reliance on functional groups, complex organic molecules can be made in a streamlined, cost-effective and environmentally benign fashion.
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