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A more sustainable and efficient access to IMes·HCl and IPr·HCl by ball-milling

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Ball-milling for efficient synthesis of pyridine-containing iron(ii) photosensitizers

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Vapour-induced solid-state C–H bond activation for the clean synthesis of an organopalladium biothiol sensor

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Direct arylation of gem-difluorostyrenes using in situ mechanochemically generated calcium-based heavy Grignard reagents

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Alternative ball-milling synthesis of vanadium-substituted polyoxometalates as catalysts for the aerobic cleavage of C–C and C–O bonds

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Mechanochemical and slow-chemistry radical transformations: a case of diorganozinc compounds and TEMPO

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Mechanochemical synthesis of Cu(i)-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

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A kinetic study of mechanically activated atom exchange: the effect of milling frequency and ball mass

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The mechanochemical Scholl reaction – a solvent-free and versatile graphitization tool

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Solvent-free ageing reactions of rare earth element oxides: from geomimetic synthesis of new metal–organic materials towards a simple, environmentally friendly separation of scandium

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Ball-milling and cheap reagents breathe green life into the one hundred-year-old Hofmann reaction

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Solid-state mechanochemistry for the rapid and efficient synthesis of tris-cyclometalated iridium(iii) complexes

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Solid-state cross-coupling reactions of insoluble aryl halides under polymer-assisted grinding conditions

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Recyclable heterogeneous metal foil-catalyzed cyclopropenation of alkynes and diazoacetates under solvent-free mechanochemical reaction conditions

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Mechanochemical synthesis of N-doped porous carbon at room temperature

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From enabling technologies to medicinal mechanochemistry: an eco-friendly access to hydantoin-based active pharmaceutical ingredients

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Mechanochemical synthesis of Zn-bionanohybrids: size effect at the nanoscale to improve their enzyme-like activity

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Challenging the Ostwald rule of stages in mechanochemical cocrystallisation

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Green metrics in mechanochemistry

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Metal-free synthesis of N-sulfonyl imines from benzyl alcohol derivatives and iminoiodinanes via mechanochemistry

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Mechanochemical synthesis and structural analysis of trivalent lanthanide and uranium diphenylphosphinodiboranates

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Mechanoenzymatic reactions with whole cell transaminases: shaken, not stirred

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Green Chem., 2022, 24, 3662
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Mechanochemically facilitated silver-catalyzed direct H/D exchange on heteroarenes

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Manometric real-time studies of the mechanochemical synthesis of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks

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Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 2141
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Illuminating milling mechanochemistry by tandem real-time fluorescence emission and Raman spectroscopy monitoring

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Dehydroxyselenocyanation of alcohols under grinding conditions

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The “η-sweet-spot” (ηmax) in liquid-assisted mechanochemistry: polymorph control and the role of a liquid additive as either a catalyst or an inhibitor in resonant acoustic mixing (RAM)

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Mechanochemical synthesis of highly porous materials

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Conquering the impossible: mechanochemistry as a tool for tackling coordination chemistry challenges

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Solvent-free zinc-mediated Béchamp reduction using mechanochemistry

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Cu(0), O2 and mechanical forces: a saving combination for efficient production of Cu–NHC complexes

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Effective and scalable mechanochemical synthesis of platinum(ii) heteroleptic anticancer complexes

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Mechanochemical routes for the synthesis of acetyl- and bis-(imino)pyridine ligands and organometallics

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The mechanochemical synthesis of polymers

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Ball milling: an efficient and green approach for asymmetric organic syntheses

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Rapid mechanoenzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass without bulk water or chemical pre-treatment

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Mechanochemistry for facilitated access to N,N-diaryl NHC metal complexes

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Metal–organic frameworks meet scalable and sustainable synthesis

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Mechanosynthesis of sydnone-containing coordination complexes

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Air- and moisture-stable Xantphos-ligated palladium dialkyl complex as a precatalyst for cross-coupling reactions

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Mechanochemistry for “no solvent, no base” preparation of hydantoin-based active pharmaceutical ingredients: nitrofurantoin and dantrolene

Evelina Colacino, Andrea Porcheddu, Ivan Halasz, Clarence Charnay, Francesco Delogu, Ruben Guerra and Julien Fullenwarth

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Simplifying and expanding the scope of boron imidazolate framework (BIF) synthesis using mechanochemistry

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Efficient access to materials-oriented aromatic alkynes via the mechanochemical Sonogashira coupling of solid aryl halides with large polycyclic conjugated systems

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Unraveling the synthesis of homoleptic [Ag(N,N-diaryl-NHC)2]Y (Y = BF4, PF6) complexes by ball-milling

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Kinetics of primary mechanochemical covalent-bond-forming reactions

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Orthogonality in main group compounds: a direct one-step synthesis of air- and moisture-stable cyclophosphazanes by mechanochemistry

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A multi-step solvent-free mechanochemical route to indium(iii) complexes

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Polymorphs and solid solutions: materials with new luminescent properties obtained through mechanochemical transformation of dicyanoaurate(i) salts

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Mechanochemical synthesis of poly(lactic acid) block copolymers: overcoming the miscibility of the macroinitiator, monomer and catalyst under solvent-free conditions

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Mechanochemistry for the synthesis of non-classical N-metalated palladium(ii) pincer complexes

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A phenomenological kinetic equation for mechanochemical reactions involving highly deformable molecular solids

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Eco-friendly anaerobic oxidation of aryl diazo esters with heterocyclic N-oxide under ball milling: synthesis of 1,2-dicarbonyl systems

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Main group mechanochemistry: from curiosity to established protocols

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Mechanochemistry allows carrying out sensitive organometallic reactions in air: glove-box-and-Schlenk-line-free synthesis of oxidative addition complexes from aryl halides and palladium(0)

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Beyond the Scholl reaction – one-step planarization and edge chlorination of nanographenes by mechanochemistry

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Fast and scalable solvent-free access to Lappert's heavier tetrylenes E{N(SiMe3)2}2 (E = Ge, Sn, Pb) and ECl{N(SiMe3)2} (E = Ge, Sn)

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Solid-state Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions: olefin-accelerated C–C coupling using mechanochemistry

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Mechanochemical ring-opening metathesis polymerization: development, scope, and mechano-exclusive polymer synthesis

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Solving the challenging synthesis of highly cytotoxic silver complexes bearing sterically hindered NHC ligands with mechanochemistry

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Mechanochemical synthesis of (hetero)aryl Au(i) complexes

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Mechanochemically directed metathesis in group 2 chemistry: calcium amide formation without solvent

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Solvent-free synthesis of a porous thiophene polymer by mechanochemical oxidative polymerization

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2-in-1: catalyst and reaction medium

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High throughput mechanochemistry: application to parallel synthesis of benzoxazines

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