TY - JOUR A1 - Macchietti, Laura A1 - Casali, Lucia A1 - Emmerling, Franziska A1 - Braga, Dario A1 - Grepioni, Fabrizia T1 - Deriving kinetic insights from mechanochemically synthesized compounds using multivariate analysis (MCR-ALS) of powder X-ray diffraction data N2 - Kinetics information on the progress of the mechanochemical reactions is key to their understanding and subsequent scale-up. For crystalline materials, the most robust and tested method for obtaining kinetic data is the Quantitative Phase Analysis (QPA) via Rietveld refinement. In this work, we tested the feasibility of the Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) method on powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) data of mechanochemical processes by studying the system theophylline (TP) and malonic acid (MA) in a 1 : 1 stoichiometric ratio at different milling conditions. We have highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the MCR-ALS method, and we demonstrated why it may be an alternative route to obtain quantitative information on mechanochemical kinetics. KW - Mechanochemistry PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-646115 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/d3mr00013c SN - 2976-8683 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 106 EP - 115 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) AN - OPUS4-64611 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -