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
Read the full article here.
Simulation of Molecular Mixing
Recent article by Michael Ferguson,
reporting the use of clasical force field molecualr dynamics to investigate molecular mixing in a model pharmaceutical cocrystal
Read the full article here.
Photoresponsive Cocrystals
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.
Read the full article here.
Halogen Bonding with PAHs
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
Read the full article here.
Direct Mechanocatalysis in RAM
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
Read the full article here.
Mechanochemical oxidation of gold
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.
Read the full article here.
Prof. Friščić has joined the University of Birmingham as a
New Leverhulm International Professor in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.
RAM in Mechanoredox Catalysis
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.
Read the full article here.
Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Textiles
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.
Read the full article here.
Catalytically Active g-PCN
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.
Read the full article here.
New Polymorphs using Mechanochemistry
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.
Read the full article here.
Mechanochemical Synthesis of g-h-PCN
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 .
Read the full article here.
Mechanochemical ring-opening polymerization
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.
Read the full article here.
SpeedMixing for Pharmaceutical Cocrystals
Recent article by Yong Teoh, showing how SpeedMixing can be utilised to synthesise pharmaceutical cocrystals based on
carbamazepine, dihydrocarbamazepine, and nicotinamide.
Read the full article here.
Photo-carving of halogen-bonded co-crystals
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.
Read the full article here.
Metal-Catalyzed Organic Reactions using RAM
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.
MOFs as Hypergolic additives
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.
Read the full article here.
New Canada Research Chair!
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!
Transition metal catalysis
Recent review article by Farshid Effaty in
collaboration with
Dr. Xavier Ottenwaelder concerning metal-catalyzed
mechanochemistry. Click here
to read the review article.
Mechanochemical ion exchange
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.
Mechanochemical synthesis of nanoparticles
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
Controlling polymorphism during milling
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!
Congratulations Dr. Ayoub!
Ghada Ayoub successfully defended her PhD on 5th
February 2020. Congratulations and all the best for your future.
Autocatalytic milling reaction
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.
Congratulations Dr. Julien!
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.
Disappearing MOF Polymorph
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.
Mechanoenzymatic reactions
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.
Congratulations Dr. Huskić!
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.
New halogen bond acceptor
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.