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Tomislav Friščić

Tomislav Friščić is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tomislav Friščić rather than just read about it. In short: Tomislav Friščić holds the Leverhulme International Professorship and Chair in Green and Sustainable chemistry at the University of Birmingham. His research focus is at the interface of green chemistry and materials science, developing solvent-free chemistry and mechanochemistry for the cleaner, efficient synthesis of molecules and materials, including organic solids such as pharmaceutical cocrystals, coordination p…

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Tomislav Friščić holds the Leverhulme International Professorship and Chair in Green and Sustainable chemistry at the University of Birmingham. His research focus is at the interface of green chemistry and materials science, developing solvent-free chemistry and mechanochemistry for the cleaner, efficient synthesis of molecules and materials, including organic solids such as pharmaceutical cocrystals, coordination polymers and Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), and a wide range of organic targets such as active pharmaceutical ingredients. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has served on the Editorial Board of CrystEngComm, the Early Career Board of the ACS journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, and was an Associate Editor for the journal Molecular Crystals & Liquid Crystals as well as for the journal Synthesis. He was a Topic Editor and Social Media Editor, and is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Crystal Growth & Design published by the American Chemical Society (ACS). He famously has a dog named Zizi.

Education Friščić was born in 1978, and received his B.Sc. in 2001 from the University of Zagreb with Prof. Branko Kaitner. He then moved to obtain a Ph.D. with Prof. Leonard R. MacGillivray at the University of Iowa until 2006. He was a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. William Jones at the Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science and University of Cambridge (2006-2008), and then a Herchel Smith Research Fellow and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge (2008-2011).

Career and research Friščić started his tenure track in 2011 at the Chemistry Department of McGill University in Montréal as an assistant professor, received tenure and was promoted to associate professor and William Dawson Scholar in 2016. He has been a full Professor of Chemistry since 2019, and in 2020 he was elected Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in mechanochemistry and solid-state chemistry. In 2022 he and his group relocated to the University of Birmingham with the support of the Leverhulme Trust to pursue research in sustainable, green chemistry through diverse types of solid-state reactivity, such as mechanochemistry, thermochemistry, photochemistry, and more. His group's research focuses on using solvent-free green chemistry, including mechanochemistry, accelerated aging, reactive aging (RAging) and other related techniques like Resonant Acoustic Mixing or SpeedMixing for various applications, such as noble metal recycling or enzymatic depolymerization of cellulose or artificial polymers, such as PET. In 2011 his team developed a solventless mechanochemical route to the active pharmaceutical ingredient bismuth subsalicylate, and in 2014 to sulfonyl-urea based antidiabetic agents such as Tolbutamide. In 2016, this pioneering work in mechanochemical pharmaceutical synthesis led his team to coin the term medicinal mechanochemistry, describing the use of mechanochemical techniques for the synthesis and processing of pharmaceutically-relevant materials and molecules. With his former student Dr. Cristina Mottillo he founded in 2016 a startup called ACSYNAM, that develops and manufactures hypergolic MOFs as greener, advanced fuels for rocket and space propulsion.

Selected publications Metal recycling

Oxidative Mechanochemistry: Direct, Room‐Temperature, Solvent‐Free Conversion of Palladium and Gold Metals into Soluble Salts and Coordination Complexes Acoustic mixing

Simple, scalable mechanosynthesis of metal–organic frameworks using liquid-assisted resonant acoustic mixing Solid-state enzymatic depolymerisation of cellulose

Solvent‐Free Enzyme Activity: Quick, High‐Yielding Mechanoenzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose into Glucose Hypergolic MOFs for rocket fuel applications

Hypergolic Triggers as Co‐crystal Formers: Co‐crystallization for Creating New Hypergolic Materials with Tunable Energy Content Hypergolic zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) as next-generation solid fuels: Unlocking the latent energetic behavior of ZIFs

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tomislav Friščić ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tomislav Friščić

In research: Tomislav Friščić appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tomislav Friščić in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tomislav Friščić is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1978 births, Academic staff of McGill University, Canadian chemists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tomislav Friščić outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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