The Friščić group, which was kick-started in August 2011, is a part of the University of Birmingham's continued development in the field of green chemistry. The principal interest of the Friščić group is in developing and exploiting solid-state, solvent-free and near solvent-free reactions for the purpose of cleaner and more energy-efficient synthesis.
Recent article by Joseph Marett,
reporting a hexameric supramolecular cage comprised of phosphonium salts held together by charge-assisted halogen bonds, that can encapsulate small polar molecules
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Recent article by Michael Ferguson,
reporting the use of clasical force field molecualr dynamics to investigate molecular mixing in a model pharmaceutical cocrystal
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Recent article by Tristan Borchers, in collaboration with
Professor Christopher Barrett , Reporting a cocrystal with three different light-intensity-dependent responses; photochromic, photomechanical and photocarving.
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Recent article by Jorgidas Vainauskas, presententing a series of halogen bonded cocrystals between
halogen bond donors and a wide array of PAH's and fulllerene
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Recent article by Cameron Lennox in collaboration with,
Dr Stefan Koenig ,
and Dr Karthik Nagapudi ,
demonstrating the use of a metal surface to directly catalyse CuAAC reactions using RAM
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Recent article by Jean-Louis Do, in collaboration with
Professor Louis Cuccia ,
reporting a solvent-free, room temperature, mechanochemical method for the oxidation of elemental gold.
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Prof. Friščić has joined the University of Birmingham as a
New Leverhulm International Professor in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.
Recent article by Farshid Effaty, in collaboration with
Professor Xavier Ottenwaelder ,
reporting the utilisation of Resonant acoustic mixing in mechanoredox reactions using a piezoelectic catalyst.
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Recent article by Sandra Kaabel, in collaboration with
Professor Karine Auclair ,
detailing the depolymerisation of PET/cotton textiles using enzymes in moist-solid reaction mixtures.
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Recent article by Blaine and Michael, in collaboration with
Professor Trong-On Do , and Professor Audrey Moores,
presenting a water-splitting capable g-PCN synthesised mechanochemically.
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Recent paper by Jogirdas Vainauskas,
reporting new luminescent materials from common salts. All synthesised using
a range of mechanochemical and thermochemical methods, ultimately leading to new polymorphs.
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Recent article by Blaine and Michael, in collaboration with
Professor Trong-On Do , and Professor Audrey Moores,
presenting a mechanochemical synthetic procedure for the synthesis of phosphorus bridged carbon nitrides .
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Recent article by Jean-Louis Do in collaboration with
Professor Gregory Peterson , and Professor Jeung Gon Kim ,
reporting effective ring-opening metathesis polymerization using mechanochemical methods.
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Recent article by Yong Teoh, showing how SpeedMixing can be utilised to synthesise pharmaceutical cocrystals based on
carbamazepine, dihydrocarbamazepine, and nicotinamide.
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Recent article by Tristan Borchers in collaboration with
Professor Christopher Barrett , reporting photo-carving of the halogen-bonded co-crystal of a fluorinated azobenzene and a volatile molecule, with low-power visible light.
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Recent article by Lori Gonnet in collaboration with
Dr. Stefan Koenig and Dr Karthik Nagapudi, ruthenium-catalysed ring metathesis and copper-catalyzed sulfonamide-isocyanate coupling
was demonstrated using Resonant Acoustic Mixing.
Read it here.
Recent article by Joseph Marret in collaboration with
Professor Étienne Robert , hypergolic metal-organic frameworks for the use
as additives to trigger hypergolic ignition in hybrid engine fuels was demonstrated.
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Prof. Friščić has been newly appointed as a prestigious Canada Research Chair in Mechanochemistry and Solid-state Chemistry in recognition of his scientific excellence. Congratulations!
Cameron has received an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral scholarship for his work on "Expanding mechanochemistry: chemical synthesis using resonant acoustic mixing (RAM)". Congratulations!
Recent review article by Farshid Effaty in collaboration with Dr. Xavier Ottenwaelder concerning metal-catalyzed mechanochemistry. Click here to read the review article.
Recent review article by Blaine Fiss and Austin Richard in collaboration with Prof. Audrey Moores about mechanochemical reactions that are based on the transfer of charged species. Click here to read the review article.
In collaboration with Moore's group, we have synthesized ultrasmall nickel phosphide nanoparticles that show great promise as catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Read more about it here.
Together with a very diverse team of 31 scientists, a diverse view of science to catalyse change has been published in several major journals, highlighting and emphasizing the importance of and diversity.
"[...]We must value diversity not only in words, but also in actions.[...]"
"[...]Valuing diversity leads to scientific excellence[...]" Read the open access article here, as well as statements from the scientists
Modification of the milling assembly led to control and even reversible polymorphic interconversion during mechanochemical cocrystallisation. Changes to milling media has led to reactions that follow or are against Ostwald's rule of stages. Read more here.
We are delighted to announce the upcoming Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec (CEMWOQ) - 6.5 on May 30-31 2020. The conference will be held online due to COVID-19.
Louis received a Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship for his work on "Mechanochemical Synthesis of Novel Salicylic Acid-Based Cages for Pharmaceutical, Energy, and Catalytic Applications". Congratulations!
Ghada Ayoub successfully defended her PhD on 5th February 2020. Congratulations and all the best for your future.
In collaboration with Prof. Baltrusaitis the water-based autocatalytic reaction of mechanochemically formed fertilizer cocrystal was monitored using in situ Raman and powder X-ray diffraction. Read more about it here.
Patrick Julien successfully defended his PhD on 16th December 2019. Congratulations and all the best for your Postdoc in the group of Prof. Peter Burns.
In collaboration with Isaiah Speight from Hanusa's group we observed the phenomenon of disappearing polymorph for a mercury based metal-organic framework. Read more about the work clicking here.
Recent review article by Dr. Sandra Kaabel in collaboration with Prof. Karine Auclair about bulk solvent and water free mechanochenzymatic reactions. Click here to read the review article.
A cocrystal based strategy was applied to create new solid hypergols, based on imidazole-substituted decaboranes as "trigger" component combined with energy-rich nitrobenzene. Click here to read more about hypergolic cocrystals.
Hypergolic MOF materials, developed jointly by ACSYNAM and our group, were named one of Quebec's 10 Inventions of the Year by Quebec Science! Read more about it here.
Igor Huskić successfully defended his PhD on 16th
July 2019. Congratulations!
We celebrated the 8th year anniversary of Friščić Group at McGill University in May 2019 by visiting a local wine yard.
In collaboration with the group of Prof. Dominik Cinčić, we explored the formation of halogen bonds using heavy pnictogens, i.e. phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony as novel acceptors. Read more here.
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