Ana Belenguer

• Method development and analysis by HPLC and LCMS
• Rietveld refinement & Scherrer size by PXRD (Collaborator Giulio Lampronti)
• Reversible polymorph interconversion by ball mill grinding
• Solvent equilibrium curves by ball mill grinding
• Ball mill grinding experiments under thermodynamic control

1. Belenguer, A. M.; Lampronti, G. I.; Wales, D. J.; Sanders, J. K. M., Direct Observation of Intermediates in a Thermodynamically Controlled Solid-State Dynamic Covalent Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136 (46), 16156-16166. DOI 10.1021/ja500707z
2. Belenguer, A. M.; Lampronti, G. I.; Cruz-Cabeza, A. J.; Hunter, C. A.; Sanders, J. K. M., Solvation and surface effects on polymorph stabilities at the nanoscale. Chem. Sci. 2016, 7 (11), 6617-6627. DOI 10.1039/C6SC03457H
3. Belenguer, A. M.; Lampronti, G. I.; De Mitri, N.; Driver, M.; Hunter, C. A.; Sanders, J. K. M., Understanding the Influence of Surface Solvation and Structure on Polymorph Stability: A Combined Mechanochemical and Theoretical Approach. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (49), 17051-17059. DOI 10.1021/jacs.8b08549
4. Belenguer, A. M.; Lampronti, G. I.; Sanders, J. K. M., Reliable Mechanochemistry: Protocols for Reproducible Outcomes of Neat and Liquid Assisted Ball-mill Grinding Experiments. JoVE 2018, (131), e56824. DOI 10.3791/56824
5. Belenguer, A. M.;; Michalchuk, A. A. L.; Lampronti, G. I.; Sanders, J. K. M., Understanding the unexpected effect of frequency on the kinetics of a covalent reaction under ball-milling conditions. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1226–1235. DOI 10.3762/bjoc.15.120

1. Widmer, R. N.; Lampronti, G. I.; Anzellini, S.; Gaillac, R.; Farsang, S.; Zhou, C.; Belenguer, A. M.; Wilson, C. W.; Palmer, H.; Kleppe, A. K.; Wharmby, M. T.; Yu, X.; Cohen, S. M.; Telfer, S. G.; Redfern, S. A. T.; Coudert, F.-X.; MacLeod, S. G.; Bennett, T. D., Pressure promoted low-temperature melting of metal–organic frameworks. Nat. Mater. 2019, 18 (4), 370-376. DOI 10.1038/s41563-019-0317-4
2. Sobczak, S.; Drożdż, W.; Lampronti, G. I.; Belenguer, A. M.; Katrusiak, A.; Stefankiewicz, A. R., Dynamic Covalent Chemistry under High-Pressure:A New Route to Disulfide Metathesis. Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24 (35), 8769-8773 DOI 10.1002/chem.201801740
3. Foster, J. A.; Parker, R. M.; Belenguer, A. M.; Kishi, N.; Sutton, S.; Abell, C.; Nitschke, J. R., Differentially Addressable Cavities within Metal–Organic Cage-Cross-Linked Polymeric Hydrogels. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (30), 9722-9729. DOI 10.1021/jacs.5b05507
4. Lam, R. T. S.; Belenguer, A.; Roberts, S. L.; Naumann, C.; Jarrosson, T.; Otto, S.; Sanders, J. K. M., Amplification of acetylcholine-binding catenanes from Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries. Science 2005, 308 (5722), 667-669. DOI 10.1126/science.1109999

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