TY - JOUR
A1 - Stolar, Tomislav
A1 - Pearce, Ben K.D.
A1 - Etter, Martin
A1 - Truong, Khai-Nghi
A1 - Ostojić, Tea
A1 - Krajnc, Andraž
A1 - Mali, Gregor
A1 - Rossi, Barbara
A1 - Molčanov, Krešimir
A1 - Lončarić, Ivor
A1 - Meštrović, Ernest
A1 - Užarević, Krunoslav
A1 - Grisanti, Luca
T1 - Base-pairing of uracil and 2,6-diaminopurine: from cocrystals to photoreactivity
N2 - We show that the non-canonical nucleobase 2,6-diaminopurine (D) spontaneously base pairs with uracil (U) in water and the solid state without the need to be attached to the ribose-phosphate backbone. Depending on the reaction conditions, D and U assemble in thermodynamically stable hydrated and anhydrated D-U base-paired cocrystals. Under UV irradiation, an aqueous solution of D-U base-pair undergoes photochemical degradation, while a pure aqueous solution of U does not. Our simulations suggest that D may trigger the U photodimerization and show that complementary base-pairing modifies the photochemical properties of nucleobases, which might have implications for prebiotic chemistry.
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - In situ monitoring
KW - Cocrystals
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608622
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109894
VL - 27
IS - 6
SP - 1
EP - 14
PB - Elsevier Inc.
AN - OPUS4-60862
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Davison, Nathan
A1 - Hemingway, Jack M.
A1 - Wills, Corinne
A1 - Stolar, Tomislav
A1 - Waddell, Paul G.
A1 - Dixon, Casey M.
A1 - Barron, Luke
A1 - Dawson, James A.
A1 - Lu, Erli
T1 - Mechanochemical Synthesis of a Sodium Anion Complex [Na+(2,2,2-cryptand)Na–] and Studies of Its Reactivity: Two-Electron and One-Electron Reductions
N2 - Group 1 metal molecular chemistry is dominated by a +1 oxidation state, while a 0 oxidation state is widespread in the metals. A more exotic, yet still available, oxidation state of group 1 metal is −1, i.e., alkalide. Reported as early as the 1970s, the alkalides appear in every modern inorganic chemistry textbook as an iconic chemical curiosity, yet their reactivity remains unexplored. This is due to their synthetic hurdles. In this work, we report the first facile synthesis of the archetypical alkalide complex, [Na+(2,2,2-cryptand)Na–], which allows us to unveil a versatile reactivity profile of this once exotic species.
KW - Mechanochemistry
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608632
DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c02914
VL - 63
IS - 32
SP - 15247
EP - 15258
PB - American Chemical Society (ACS)
AN - OPUS4-60863
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Alić, Jasna
A1 - Schlegel, Moritz-Caspar
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
A1 - Stolar, Tomislav
T1 - Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals with Mechanochemistry
N2 - Chemistry traditionally relies on reactions in solution, but this method is increasingly problematic due to the scale of chemical processes and their economic and environmental impact. Handling residual chemical waste, including solvents, incurs significant costs and environmental pressure. Conversely, novel chemical approaches are needed to address pressing societal issues such as climate change, energy scarcity, food insecurity, and waste pollution. Mechanochemistry, a sustainable chemistry discipline that uses mechanical action to induce chemical reactivity without bulk solvents, is a hot topic in academic research on sustainable and green chemistry. Given its fundamentally different working principles from solution chemistry, mechanochemistry offers more efficient chemical processes and the opportunity to design new chemical reactions. Mechanochemistry has a profound impact on many urgent issues facing our society and it is now necessary to use mechanochemistry to address them. This Minireview aims to provide a guide for using mechanochemistry to meet the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), thereby contributing to a prosperous society. Detailed analysis shows that mechanochemistry connects with most UN SDGs and offers more cost‐efficiency than other approaches together with a superior environmental performance.
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - SDGs
PY - 2024
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202414745
SP - 1
EP - 3
PB - Wiley
AN - OPUS4-61108
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - CONF
A1 - Stolar, Tomislav
T1 - Sustainable mechanochemical reaction engineering: from molecular mechanisms to scalable technology
N2 - In this talk, I will present about our quest to fundamentally understand mechanochemical reactions by in situ monitoring studies. Another of our interest is scaling up mechanochemistry. For example, we are now working on developing mechanochemical technology to enable a circular economy of plastics.
T2 - Korea-Germany Symposium on Mechanochemistry
CY - Jeonju, South Korea
DA - 02.10.2024
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - Plastic recycling
KW - Circular economy
PY - 2024
AN - OPUS4-62110
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - CONF
A1 - Stolar, Tomislav
T1 - Mechanochemistry: fundamentals to application
N2 - In the first part, I will talk about the role of mechanochemistry in prebiotic chemistry. For example, prebiotically plausible pathways to peptides from inactivated amino acids are unclear as most oligomerization approaches rely on thermodynamically disfavored reactions in solution. I will show how a combination of mineral surfaces and mechanochemical activation enables the oligomerization of amino acids to oligopeptides (Figure 1). In the second part, I will show how fundamental studies inspired to use mechanochemistry for the sustainable synthesis of commercially relevant compounds, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.2 We developed a solvent-free thermo-mechanochemical approach for the direct coupling of carboxylic acids and amines, which avoids activators and additives. We applied our methodology for the quantitative synthesis of the active pharmaceutical ingredient moclobemide (Figure 2).
T2 - Solutions in Chemistry Conference 2024
CY - Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia
DA - 15.11.2024
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - Plastic recycling
KW - Circular economy
PY - 2024
AN - OPUS4-62111
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - CONF
A1 - Stolar, Tomislav
T1 - Sustainable mechanochemical reaction engineering: from molecular mechanisms to scalable technology
N2 - In this talk, I will present about our quest to fundamentally understand mechanochemical reactions by in situ monitoring studies. Another of our interest is scaling up mechanochemistry. For example, we are now working on developing mechanochemical technology to enable a circular economy of plastics.
T2 - Hokkaido International Workshop on Mechanochemistry
CY - Hokkaido, Japan
DA - 29.09.2024
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - Plastic recycling
KW - Circular economy
PY - 2024
AN - OPUS4-62109
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Casali, Lucia
A1 - Carta, Maria
A1 - Michalchuk, Adam
A1 - Delogu, Francesco
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
T1 - Kinetics of the mechanically induced ibuprofen–nicotinamide co-crystal formation by in situ X-ray diffraction
N2 - Mechanochemistry is drawing attention from the pharmaceutical industry given its potential for sustainable material synthesis and manufacture. Scaling mechanochemical processes to industrial level remains a challenge due to an incomplete understanding of their underlying mechanisms. We here show how time-resolved in situ powder X-ray diffraction data, coupled with analytical kinetic modelling, provides a powerful approach to gain mechanistic insight into mechanochemical reactions. By using the ibuprofen–nicotinamide co-crystal mechanosynthesis as a benchmark system, we investigate the behaviour of the solids involved and identify the factors that promote the reaction. As mechanochemical mechanisms become increasingly clear, it promises to become a breakthrough in the industrial preparation of advanced pharmaceuticals.
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - Kinetics
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-608820
DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP01457J
SN - 1463-9084
VL - 26
SP - 22041
EP - 22048
PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
CY - Cambridge
AN - OPUS4-60882
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Gugin, Nikita
A1 - Yusenko, Kirill
A1 - King, Andrew
A1 - Meyer, Klas
A1 - Al-Sabbagh, Dominik
A1 - Villajos Collado, José Antonio
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
T1 - Lighting up industrial mechanochemistry: Real-time in situ monitoring of reactive extrusion using energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction
N2 - Mechanochemistry is an environmentally friendly synthetic approach that enables the sustainable production of a wide range of chemicals while reducing or eliminating the need for solvents. Reactive extrusion aims to move mechanochemistry from its conventional gram-scale batch reactions, typically performed in laboratory ball mills, to a continuous, large-scale process. Meeting this challenge requires in situ monitoring techniques to gain insights into reactive extrusion and its underlying processes. While the effectiveness of in situ Raman spectroscopy in providing molecular-level information has been demonstrated, our study uses energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction to monitor reactive extrusion in real time at the crystalline level. Our results provide previously unavailable control over the reactive extrusion process, promoting its perception as an industrially feasible green alternative to traditional solvent-based syntheses.
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - Reactive extrusion
KW - Green chemistry
KW - In situ studies
KW - Time-resolved in situ
KW - TRIS
KW - Synchrotron radiation
KW - Scalable synthesis
KW - Solid-state reactions
KW - Reaction mechanisms
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-613969
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2024.07.033
VL - 10
IS - 11
SP - 1
EP - 16
PB - Elsevier B.V.
AN - OPUS4-61396
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Zuffa, Caterina
A1 - Cappuccino, Chiara
A1 - Casali, Lucia
A1 - Emmerling, Franziska
A1 - Maini, Lucia
T1 - Liquid reagents are not enough for liquid assisted grinding in the synthesis of [(AgBr)(n-pica)]n
N2 - This study investigates the mechanochemical reactions between AgBr 3-picolylamine and 4-picolylamine. The use of different stoichiometry ratios of the reagents allows [(AgBr)(n-pica)]n and [(AgBr)2(n-pica)]n to be obtained, and we report the new structures of [(AgBr)2(3-pica)]n and [(AgBr)2(4-pica)]n which are characterized by the presence of the following: (a) infinite inorganic chains, (b) silver atom coordinated only by bromide atoms and (c) argentophilic interactions. Furthermore, we studied the interconversion of [(AgBr)(n-pica)]n/[(AgBr)2(n-pica)]n by mechanochemical and thermal properties. The in situ experiments suggest that [(AgBr)(3-pica)]n is kinetically favoured while [(AgBr)2(3-pica)]n is converted into [(AgBr)(3-pica)]n only with a high excess of the ligand. Finally, the liquid nature of the ligands is not sufficient to assist the grinding process, and the complete reaction is observed with the addition of a small quantity of acetonitrile.
KW - Mechanochemistry
KW - Complex
PY - 2024
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-594755
DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cp04791a
SN - 1463-9076
SP - 1
EP - 10
PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
AN - OPUS4-59475
LA - eng
AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
ER -
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 -