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Hear from our authors: Bernardo Castro Dominguez

RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

 

In this edition, we hear from Bernardo Castro Dominguez about their study titled Mechanochemical extraction of edible proteins from moor grass.

 

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Mechanochemical extraction of edible proteins from moor grass

Olusegun Abayomi Olalere, Fatma Guler, Christopher J. Chuck, Hannah S. Leese and Bernardo Castro-Dominguez

RSC Mechanochem. 2024, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00016A

 

 

  RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

 

 

Hear from our authors: Aabiskar Bhusal

RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

 

In this edition, we hear from Aabiskar Bhusal about their study titled A hybrid density functional study on the mechanochemistry of silicon carbide nanotubes.

 

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A hybrid density functional study on the mechanochemistry of silicon carbide nanotubes

Aabiskar Bhusal, Kapil Adhikari and Qian Sun

RSC Mechanochem. 2024, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00043A

 

  RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

 

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    Hear from our authors: Kathleen Floyd

    RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

     

    In this edition, we hear from Kathleen Floyd about their study titled The role of the milling environment on the copper-catalysed mechanochemical synthesis of tolbutamide.

     

    Want to know more about their work? Read the full paper here!

    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, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00031E

     

      RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

     

    Toni Spilfogel and Joseph Marrett win RSC Mechanochemistry and RSC Sustainability poster prizes

    RSC Mechanochemistry and RSC Sustainability were delighted to sponsor two Poster Prizes at the recent Birmingham Symposium on Mechanochemistry and Sustainability. Researchers from around the world came together during this symposium to present their latest research.

     

    RSC Mechanochemistry Assistant Editor Patrick de Jongh attended this event and presented the RSC-sponsored Poster Prizes to Toni Spilfogel and Joseph Marrett (University of Birmingham, UK). Congratulations to the prize winners!

     

    Left: John Warner, Patrick de Jongh, Toni Spilfogel and Thomas Auvray. Right: John Warner, Patrick de Jongh, Joseph Marrett and Thomas Auvray.

     

    RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

     

     

    Hear from our authors: Tim Hanusa

    RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

     

    In this edition, we hear from Hanusa about their study titled Grinding and the anisotropic environment: influences on the diastereoselective formation of Group 15 allyl complexes.

     

    “The environment in a mechanochemically driven reaction is often considered chaotic and random, whether it’s from the pelting of stainless-steel balls or the effect of collisions in resonant acoustic mixing (RAM). So, the possibility of studying a mechanochemical environment that is less than homogenous—that has anisotropic features—is particularly attractive.”

     

    “In this research, we revisited a system we had studied a few years ago, which involved organometallic diastereomers formed either in solution or mechanochemically. In the case of arsenic and antimony complexes with bulky allyl ligands, a greater percentage of the asymmetric form was generated during mechanochemical synthesis. The difference was traced to the use of layered starting reagents, specifically AsI₃ and SbCl₃, and their directing effect on compound formation. In solution, the anisotropic environment is lost, and a larger amount of the more symmetric diastereomer is formed, owing to the quasi-spherical environments around the As³⁺ and Sb³⁺ ions.”

     

    “The current study expanded the range of reagents and mechanochemical variables used to synthesize the diastereomers. The aim was to determine their effect on the diastereomer ratios, yields, and formation of decomposition products. When liquid AsCl₃ was used in place of the layered, solid AsI₃, the diastereomer ratio of the arsenic complex not surprisingly veered toward solution values. However, the strong effect of liquid-assisted grinding (LAG) was unexpected. LAG altered the diastereomer ratio toward solution values, even when minimal amounts of solvents were added, and the reagents had negligible solubility in the added solvent.”

     

    “These results indicate that the anisotropic environment can be meaningfully manipulated in the solid state. Since it is a variable with no direct solution counterpart, such as the time or temperature of the reaction, its expanded use holds promise for new outcomes from mechanochemically initiated synthesis.”

     

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    Grinding and the anisotropic environment: influences on the diastereoselective formation of Group 15 allyl complexes

    Lauren E. Wenger and Timothy P. Hanusa

    RSC Mechanochem. 2024, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00001C

     

     

      RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

     

     

    Hear from our authors: Masad Damha, James Thorpe and Julian Marlyn

    RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

     

    In this edition, we hear from Masad Damha, James Thorpe and Julian Marlyn about their study titled Synthesis of short DNA and RNA fragments by resonant acoustic mixing (RAM).

     

    Want to know more about their work? Read the full paper here!

    Synthesis of short DNA and RNA fragments by resonant acoustic mixing (RAM)

    James D. Thorpe, Julian Marlyn, Stefan G. Koenig and Masad J. Damha

    RSC Mechanochem. 2024, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00009A

     

     

    RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

     

     

    Hear from our authors: Michel Baltas, Christina Koumpoura, Christian Bijani and Laure Vendier

    RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

     

    In this edition, we hear from Michel Baltas, Christina Koumpoura, Christian Bijani and Laure Vendier about their study titled Unprecedented linear products by a mechanochemically activated Biginelli reaction using lawsone.

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    Unprecedented linear products by a mechanochemically activated Biginelli reaction using lawsone

    Christina L. Koumpoura, Laure Vendier, Christian Bijani, Anne Robert, Philippe Carbonnière, Jean-Marc Sotiropoulos and Michel Baltas

    RSC Mechanochem. 2024, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D3MR00032J

     

     

    RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

     

    Hear from our authors: Dzmitry Kananovich, Riina Aav and co-workers

    RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

     

    In this edition, we hear from Dzmitry Kananovich, Riina Aav and co-workers about their study titled Protecting-group-free mechanosynthesis of amides from hydroxycarboxylic acids: application to the synthesis of imatinib.

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    Protecting-group-free mechanosynthesis of amides from hydroxycarboxylic acids: application to the synthesis of imatinib

    Tatsiana Nikonovich, Tatsiana Jarg, Jevgenija Martõnova, Artjom Kudrjašov, Danylo Merzhyievskyi, Marina Kudrjašova, Fabrice Gallou, Riina Aav and Dzmitry Kananovich

    RSC Mechanochem. 2024, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00006D

     

     

      RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

     

     

    Hear from our authors: Matteo Martelli, Lucia Maini and Marianna Marchini

    RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

     

    In this edition, we hear from Matteo Martelli, Lucia Maini and Marianna Marchini about their study titled “What makes every work perfect is cooking and grinding”: the ancient roots of mechanochemistry.

     

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    “What makes every work perfect is cooking and grinding”: the ancient roots of mechanochemistry

    Marianna Marchini, Giacomo Montanari, Lucia Casali, Matteo Martelli, Lucia Raggetti, Matej Baláž, Peter Baláž and Lucia Maini

    RSC Mechanochem. 2024, 1, 123-129, DOI: 10.1039/D3MR00035D

     

     

      RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

     

    Hear from our authors: Shunsuke Tanaka

    RSC Mechanochemistry has published its first articles. To celebrate this, we asked the authors to discuss their work in some more detail.

     

    In this edition, we hear from Shunsuke Tanaka about their study titled “Wash-free” synthesis of cyclodextrin metal–organic frameworks.

     

    Want to know more about their work? Read the full paper here!

    “Wash-free” synthesis of cyclodextrin metal–organic frameworks

    Shuhei Fujita, Kazunori Kadota, Atsushi Koike, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yuichi Tozuka and Shunsuke Tanaka

    RSC Mechanochem. 2024, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D3MR00006K

     

     

      RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.