Clean and Efficient Synthesis Using Mechanochemistry: Coordination Polymers, Metal-Organic Frameworks and Metallodrugs

This review briefly discusses recent advances and future prospects in the mechanochemical synthesis of coordination compounds by ball milling and grinding, and highlights our contributions to the mechanosynthesis of porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), metal-organic pharmaceutical derivatives and metallodrugs using the recently developed mechanochemical methods of liquid-assisted grinding (LAG) and ion- and liquid-assisted grinding (ILAG). The role of mechanochemistry in the development of a solvent-free laboratory, cocrystal synthesis and new materials for luminescence and gas absorption is also highlighted. (doi: 10.5562/cca2014)