Since publishing our first articles in January 2024, RSC Mechanochemistry has continued to publish impactful research in the field of mechanical forces in chemistry and the use of mechanochemistry in other disciplines. Here we are looking back at some of the publications from our Editorial Board.
| In situ investigation of controlled polymorphism in mechanochemistry at elevated temperature
Kevin Linberg, Philipp C. Sander, Franziska Emmerling and Adam A. L. Michalchuk RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 43-49 DOI: 10.1039/D3MR00019B |
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In situ Raman spectroscopy for comparing ball milling and resonant acoustic mixing in organic mechanosynthesis
Leonarda Vugrin, Christos Chatzigiannis, Evelina Colacino and Ivan Halasz RSC Mechanochem., 2025, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D5MR00016E |
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| Polymer vessels in mechanochemical syntheses: assessing material performance
Marisol Fabienne Rappen, Lars Beissel, Jonathan Geisler, Simeon Theodor Tietmeyer, Sven Grätz and Lars Borchardt RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 386-392 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR000059E |
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The role of the milling environment on the copper-catalysed mechanochemical synthesis of tolbutamide
Kathleen Floyd, Lori Gonnet, Tomislav Friščić and James Batteas RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 289-295 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00031E |
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| Base-mediated trimerization of enones under solvent-free and ball-milling conditions
Gang Shao, Pinhua Li, Zheng-Chun Yin, Jun-Shen Chen, Xu-Ling Xiaa and Guan-Wu Wang RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 162-166 DOI: 10.1039/D3MR00010A |
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Mechanochemistry enabled highly efficient solvent-free deoxygenation of phosphine oxides in air
Koji Kubota, Reon Hisazumi, Tamae Seoa and Hajime Ito RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 250-254 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00011K |
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| Modeling mechanochemistry: pressure dependence of Diels–Alder cycloaddition reaction kinetics
Nicholas Hopper, François Sidoroff, Juliette Cayer-Barrioz, Denis Mazuyer, Bo Chen and Wilfred T. Tysoe RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 402-412 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00063C |
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Deriving kinetic insights from mechanochemically synthesized compounds using multivariate analysis (MCR-ALS) of powder X-ray diffraction data
Laura Macchietti, Lucia Casali, Franziska Emmerling, Dario Braga and Fabrizia Grepioni RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 106-115 DOI: 10.1039/D3MR00013C |
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| Cyanation of aryl halides using potassium hexacyanoferrate(ii) via direct mechanocatalysis
Suhmi Hwang, Phil M. Preuß, Wilm Pickhardt, Sven Grätz and Lars Borchardt RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 531-535 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00054D |
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Direct arylation of gem-difluorostyrenes using in situ mechanochemically generated calcium-based heavy Grignard reagents
Xihong Wang, Yamato Fukuzawa, Pan Gao, Julong Jiang, Satoshi Maeda, Koji Kubota and Hajime Ito RSC Mechanochem., 2025, 2, 256-262 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00135D |
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| Direct arylation of alkyl fluorides using in situ mechanochemically generated calcium-based heavy Grignard reagents
Pan Gao, Julong Jiang, Yamato Fukuzawa, Satoshi Maeda, Koji Kubota and Hajime Ito RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 486-491 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00067F |
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Mechanochemical synthesis of bismuth active pharmaceutical ingredients, bismuth(iii) gallate and bismuth citrate
Daniel Szczerba, Jean-Louis Do, Davin Tan, Hatem M. Titi, Nicolas Geoffroy, María del Carmen Marco de Lucas, Julien Boudon, Ivan Halasz, Tomislav Friščić and Simon A. J. Kimber RSC Mechanochem., 2024, 1, 255-262 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00008K |
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| Mechanochemical ZIF-9 formation: in situ analysis and photocatalytic enhancement evaluation
Noelia Rodríguez-Sánchez, Carsten Prinz, Ralf Bienert, Menta Ballesteros, A. Rabdel Ruiz Salvador, Biswajit Bhattacharya and Franziska Emmerling RSC Mechanochem., 2025, 2, 116-126 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00114A |
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Solvent-free zinc-mediated Béchamp reduction using mechanochemistry
Koji Kubota, Asahi Nagaoa and Hajime Ito RSC Mechanochem., 2025, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00138A |
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| Efficient racemization of the pharmaceutical compound Levetiracetam using solvent-free mechanochemistry
Chrystal Lopes, Lucia Casali, Franziska Emmerling, Tom Leyssens, Valérie Dupray, Clement Brandel and Yohann Cartigny RSC Mechanochem., 2025, 2, 83-90 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00103F |
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Scaling theory for the kinetics of mechanochemical reactions with convective flow
Tetsuya Yamamoto, Koji Kubota, Yu Harabuchia and Hajime Ito RSC Mechanochem., 2025, 2, 230-239 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00091A |
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