Ball milling has emerged as a powerful tool over the past few years for effecting chemical reactions by mechanical energy. Allowing a variety of reactions to occur at ambient temperatures and in solvent-free conditions, ball milling presents a greener route for many chemical processes.
Compared to the use of microwave and ultrasound as energy sources for chemical reactions, ball milling is not as familiar to chemists and yet it holds great potential. This book will introduce practicing chemists to the technique and will highlight its importance for green transformations. Current applications of ball milling will be covered in detail as well as its origin, recent developments and future scope, challenges and prospects.
Chemical transformations covered include carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation, oxidation by solid oxidants, asymmetric organo-catalytic reactions, dehydrogenative coupling, peptide syntheses and polymeric material syntheses. The book will provide a valuable guide for organic, inorganic and organometallic chemists, material scientists, polymer scientists, reaction engineers and postgraduate students in chemistry.

Professor Ranu has been actively pursuing research in the area of green synthesis for more than two decades. His work is centred primarily on the development of useful synthetic procedures under solvent-free reactions on inorganic solid support such as alumina and silica gel; use of ionic liquids, metal nanoparticles and supported metals as catalysts; reactions under microwave, ultrasound irradiation and ball milling among others. He is a Ph.D. and elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy.

Carbon-carbon bond forming /coupling reactions by ball milling; Carbon - heteroatom bond forming reactions under ball milling; Oxidation by solid oxidants using ball milling; Asymmetric organocatalytic reactions under ball milling; Metal catalysed ball milling chemistry; Peptide synthesis by ball milling; Technical implications of organic syntheses in ball mills; Cross dehydrogenative coupling reactions by ball milling; Ball milling induced cracking of functional resins for chromatography-free purification; Ball milling promoted chemical bonding between cellulose and plastics; Ball milling in the synthesis of useful polymeric composites