Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

DOI

10.3390/cryst10060482

Publication Title

Crystals

Volume

10

Issue

6

Pages

482 (1-17)

Abstract

This report describes aspects of our previous studies of the mechanochemical synthesis of charge transfer complexes of the electron donor tetrathiafulvalene, which are relevant to the use of laboratory X-ray powder diffraction for ex situ monitoring of mechanochemical reactions toward investigating their mechanisms. In particular, the reaction of tetrathiafulvalene and chloranil was studied under neat mechanochemical conditions and liquid-assisted grinding with diethyl ether (1 μL/mg). The product in both cases is the green tetrathiafulvalene chloranil polymorph and the mechanism of the redox reaction is presumably the same. However, while the kinetic profile of the neat mechanochemical synthesis was fitted with a second-order rate law, that of the overall faster liquid-assisted grinding reaction was fitted with the Ginstling-Brounshtein 3D diffusion-controlled model. Hence, the diffusional processes and mass transfer bringing the reactants together and separating them from products must be different. Diffraction measurements sensitive to crystalline phases and amorphous material, combined with in situ monitoring by spectroscopic techniques, will ultimately afford a better understanding of mechanochemical reaction mechanisms, a hot topic in mechanochemistry.

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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Original Publication Citation

Chen, R., Gokus, M. K., & Pagola, S. (2020). Tetrathiafulvalene: A gate to the mechanochemical mechanisms of electron transfer reactions. Crystals, 10(6), 482-482. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst10060482

ORCID

0000-0001-6216-2185 (Gokus), 0000-0003-2083-7599 (Pagola)

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