Birch reduction simplified to a one-minute mechanochemical process

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-birch-reduction-one-minute-mechanochemical.html

"ambient air, avoids ammonia and 20– 150X faster... solvent-less, reactants shaken in metal jar with metal ball smashes solid reactants together... breaks through surface layer on lithium that reacted with air exposing pure lithium underneath to the other reactants enabling Birch reduction... scaled up to larger gram-scale batches... simpler and more eco-friendly... medicines and bioactive compounds"