Ivan Halasz

TL;DR: The real-time study of mechanochemical transformations in a ball mill by means of in situ diffraction of high-energy synchrotron X-rays reveals that mechanochemistry is highly dynamic, with reaction rates comparable to or greater than those in solution.

TL;DR: In situ, real-time powder X-ray diffraction monitoring is used to discover and capture a metastable, novel-topology intermediate of a mechanochemical transformation of katsenite, providing direct evidence that milling transformations can involve short-lived, structurally unusual phases not yet accessed by conventional chemistry.

TL;DR: In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction monitoring of the reaction course reveals two new phases and an unusual stepwise process in which a close-packed intermediate reacts to form the open framework.

TL;DR: An unprecedented laboratory technique to monitor the course of mechanochemical transformations at the molecular level in situ and in real time by using Raman spectroscopy was described and validated on mechanochemical reactions to form coordination polymers and organic cocrystals.