RSC Mechanochemistry Blog

RSC Mechanochemistry is delighted to share with you this Editor’s pick collection, selected by Associate Editor Evelina Colacino (University of Montpellier). Our Editor’s pick series showcases exciting research published in the journal, handpicked by our Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. This month we have a selection of recent articles chosen by Evelina Colacino.

Evelina’s main research activities concern the development of eco-friendly mechanochemical processes for the preparation of value-added compounds for the industry, with a focus on active pharmaceutical ingredients

‘The selected articles cover a diversity of transformations occurring under mechanical stress, confirming the broad spectrum of its applications in organic/polymer/medicinal chemistry or crystal engineering. This collection demonstrates:

• Deconstruction of polymers to access oligomeric glycans, as valuable alternative to sugars, diarylacetonitrile radicals were generated for applications in luminescent materials.

• Preparation of three-component polymorphic systems and a key intermediate of an Active Pharmaceutical ingredient.

• Implementation of well assessed reactions in solution, such as nucleophilic aromatic substitutions or diazotization, within mechanochemical devices.’

We hope you enjoy reading this collection!

Check out this selection of articles that feature in Evelina’s Editor’s Pick
	A method to predict binary eutectic mixtures for mechanochemical syntheses and cocrystallizations Michele Prencipe, Paolo P. Mazzeo and Alessia Bacchi RSC Mechanochem., 2025,2, 61-71 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00080C
	Mechanochemical kilogram-scale synthesis of rac-ibuprofen:nicotinamide co-crystals using a drum mill Jan-Hendrik Schöbel, Frederik Winkelmann, Joel Bicker and Michael Felderhoff RSC Mechanochem., 2025,2, 224-229 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00096J
	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
	Solvent-free mechanochemical synthesis of azo dyes Lin Zhang, Qinglang Song, Yanxian Wang,  Rui Chen, Yu Xia, Bin Wang, Weiwei Jin, Shaofeng Wu, Ziren Chen, Azhar Iqbal, Chenjiang Liu and Yonghong Zhang RSC Mechanochem., 2024,1, 447-451 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00053F

Discover some of Evelina’s research published in RSC journals:
	Modulating the crystalline forms of silver–sulfadiazine complexes by mechanochemistry Daniela R. Ferreira, Anaïs Portet, Paula C. Alves, Patrícia Rijo, Clara S. B. Gomes, M. Teresa Duarte, Ivan Halasz, Evelina Colacino, Franziska Emmerling and Vânia André CrystEngComm, 2025, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D5CE00572H
	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., 2025,2, 482-487 DOI: 10.1039/D5MR00016E
	Chemoselectivity switch by mechanochemistry in the base-catalysed dione-acylation         Sally Nijem, Alexander Kaushansky, Svetlana Pucovski, Elisa Ivry, Evelina Colacino, Ivan Halasz and Charles E. Diesendruck RSC Mechanochem., 2025,2, 419-425 DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00141A

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