Advances in Cryochemistry: Mechanisms, Reactions and Applications

Overview

Journal Molecules

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biology

Date 2021 Feb 4

PMID 33535547

Citations 3

Authors

Lu-Yan An

Zhen Dai

Bin Di

Li-Li Xu

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Abstract

It is counterintuitive that chemical reactions can be accelerated by freezing, but this amazing phenomenon was discovered as early as the 1960s. In frozen systems, the increase in reaction rate is caused by various mechanisms and the freeze concentration effect is the main reason for the observed acceleration. Some accelerated reactions have great application value in the chemistry synthesis and environmental fields; at the same time, certain reactions accelerated at low temperature during the storage of food, medicine, and biological products should cause concern. The study of reactions accelerated by freezing will overturn common sense and provide a new strategy for researchers in the chemistry field. In this review, we mainly introduce various mechanisms for accelerating reactions induced by freezing and summarize a variety of accelerated cryochemical reactions and their applications.

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