2020 Volume 69 Issue 10.11 Pages 607-617
Hydrostatic-pressure spectroscopy serves as a versatile analytical tool for elucidating a reaction or activation volume change (ΔV), enabling us not only to obtain deeper mechanistic insights into inherent basic science but also to apply to pressure-responsive chemosensor materials. Hydrostatic pressure is one of the most attractive external stimuli, and hence its effects on solutions have quite been investigated since the early 1960s. Recently, related studies attracted much attention as the fashionable mechanochromism and mechanobiology rose; solution-state effects upon hydrostatic pressurization are focused in this report, rather than solid-state chemistry under high pressure using a diamond anvil cell. In this review, we highlight our recent studies on hydrostatic-pressure spectroscopic chemistry.
