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A dry media reaction or solid-state reaction or solventless reaction is a chemical reaction performed in the absence of a solvent.[1] Dry media reactions have been developed in the wake of developments in microwave chemistry, and are a part of green chemistry.[2]

The drive for the development of dry media reactions in chemistry is:

Drawbacks to overcome:

  • reactants should mix to a homogeneous system
  • high viscosity in reactant system
  • unsuitable for solvent assisted chemical reactions
  • problems with dissipating heat safely; risk of thermal runaway
  • side reactions accelerated
  • if reagents are solids, very high energy consumption from milling

In one type of solventless reaction a liquid reactant is used neat, for instance the reaction of 1-bromonaphthalene with Lawesson's reagent is done with no added liquid solvent, but the 1-bromonaphthalene acts as a solvent.

A reaction which is closer to a true solventless reaction is a Knoevenagel condensation of ketones with (malononitrile) where a 1:1 mixture of the two reactants (and ammonium acetate) is irradiated in a microwave oven.

Colin Raston's research group have been responsible for a number of new solvent free reactions. In some of these reactions all the starting materials are solids, they are ground together with some sodium hydroxide to form a liquid, which turns into a paste which then hardens to a solid.

In another development the two components of an aldol reaction are combined with the asymmetric catalyst S-proline in a ball mill in a mechanosynthesis. The reaction product has 97% enantiomeric excess.

A reaction rate acceleration is observed in several systems when a homogeneous solvent system is rapidly evaporated in a rotavap in a vacuum, one of them a Wittig reaction. The reaction goes to completion in 5 minutes with immediate evaporation whereas the same reaction in solution after the same 5 minutes (dichloromethane) has only 70% conversion and even after 24 hours some of the aldehyde remains.

References

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  1. ^ "3.2 TOOLS OF GREEN CHEMISTRY" (PDF). Bharathidasan University. 2016-12-23. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
  2. ^ Kidwai, M. (2001). "Dry media reactions" (PDF). Pure Appl. Chem. 73 (1): 147–151.
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