Understanding solid/solid organic reactions

G Rothenberg, AP Downie, CL Raston…

Index: Rothenberg; Downie; Raston; Scott Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2001 , vol. 123, # 36 p. 8701 - 8708

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Abstract

The concept of an organic reaction between two macroscopic solid particles is investigated. Thus, we study several reactions that have been recently reported to proceed “in the solid phase” and clearly show that, in most cases, grinding the two solid reactants together results in the formation of a liquid phase. This is true both for catalytic transformations (eg, aldol condensations and oligomerization of benzylic compounds) and for noncatalytic reactions ...