Organic Mechanochemistry and Its Practical Applications gathers physical and organic chemistry-based molecular principles, evolving interpretations of scientific data, and real world applications to demonstrate the synthetic advantages of mechanically initiated organic reactions.

Features:

• Demonstrates how organic mechanochemistry pertains to the search for new lubricant compositions
• Proposes alternative synthetic processes that reduce the cost and environmental threat posed by solvents
• Compiles interrelating data from scientists and inventors around the world
• Provides mechanisms of mechanically induced organic reactions, elucidating the mechanisms of antifriction effects in technical devices and in living organisms
• Applies new theories for boundary lubrication in the presence of organic additives
• Considers the application and behavior of organic compounds as constituents of biomechanical formulations
• Highlights novel applications in lubricants, anti-corrosive additives, biomedical implants, pharmaceutical drug formulation, and even recreational sports equipment

Contents

Specificity of Organic Reactivity on Mechanical Activation

• Subatomic Results of Mechanical Activation
• General Grounds of Mechanically-Induced Organic Reactions
• Relations between Organic Material Properties and Mechanical Effects

Mechanochromism of Organic Compounds

• Mechanically-Induced Luminescence
• Coloration as a Result of Radical Ion Generation on Milling
• Bond-Breaking Mechanochromism
• Spectral Changes as a Result of Mechanically-Induced Reorganization of Crystal Packing
• Spectral Changes as a Result of Mechanically-Induced Structural Phase Transition

Organic Reactions within Lubricating Layers

• Reactions of Lubricating Materials with Triboemitted Electrons
• Boundary Lubrication and Chemisorption
• Warming Effect on Lubricants upon Friction
• "Solvency" and Reactivity of Base Oils
• Chemical Origins of Additive Synergism-Antagonism
• Molecular Mechanisms of Dry-Sliding Lubrication

Mechanically-Induced Organic Reactions

• Mechanochemically-Initiated Polymerization, Depolymerization, and Mechanolysis
• Representative Examples of Mechanically-Induced Organic Reactions
• Mechanochemical Approaches to Fullerene Reactivity
• Mechanically-Induced Reactions of Peptides and Proteins
• Formation of Molecular Complexes
• Mechanical Initiation of Intermolecular Electron Transfer and Intramolecular Electron Redistribution
• Mechanically-Induced Conformational Transition of Organic Compounds

Mechanically-Induced Phase Transition and Layer Arrangement

• Liquid Crystals vPolymers
• Pressure-Induced Phase Transition

Nano and Biolubrication

• Antifriction and Antiwear Nanolayers
• Biotribology

Concluding Remarks and Horizons

• Mechanochromism and Information Recording
• Lubricity Mechanism and Lubricant Design
• Specific Synthetic Opportunities of Solvent-Free Reactions
• Regularities in Mechanical Activation of Organic Reactions
• Organic Mechanochemistry and Bioengineering
• Examples of Innovations at the Border of Organic Mechanochemistry

Index

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