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CHAPTER 7
Ball-milling Mechanochemical
Synthesis of Coordination
Bonds: Discrete Units,
Polymers and Porous Materials
TOMISLAV FRI
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Department of Chemistry and FRQNT Centre for Green Chemistry and
Catalysis, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, H3A 0B8,
Canada
Email: tomislav.friscic@mcgill.ca
7.1 Introduction
While mechanochemical reactions
1
and processing are well established in
the areas of inorganic chemistry and materials science (e.g. syntheses of
ferrites and perovskites,
2
nanoparticles
3
and alloys
4
), as well as in the syn-
theses of organic compounds,
5,6
the application of ball milling for the syn-
thesis of metal-organic materials is relatively new. Pioneering reports on the
synthesis of coordination polymers date from early 2000s,
1
and mechano-
chemical synthesis of discrete metal-organic complexes, although noted in
1970s,
7
have remained largely unexplored until the twenty-first century.
Despite a late beginning, the area of metal-organic mechanochemistry
has developed with explosive velocity and now encompasses a vast diversity
of materials, from molecular cages
8
and squares, microporous metal-
organic frameworks (MOFs),
9
luminescent coordination polymers
10
and
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