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Deciding Whether To Go with the Flow: Evaluating the Merits of Flow Reactors for Synthesis
Author(s) -
Hartman Ryan L.,
McMullen Jonathan P.,
Jensen Klavs F.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201004637
Subject(s) - continuous flow , process engineering , flow chemistry , biochemical engineering , flow (mathematics) , continuous reactor , production (economics) , computer science , environmental science , chemistry , engineering , mechanics , economics , organic chemistry , catalysis , physics , macroeconomics
The fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industries are transforming how their products are manufactured, where economically favorable, from traditional batchwise processes to continuous flow. This evolution is impacting synthetic chemistry on all scales—from the laboratory to full production. This Review discusses the relative merits of batch and micro flow reactors for performing synthetic chemistry in the laboratory.