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Practical and Scalable Organic Reactions with Flow Microwave Apparatus
Author(s) -
Egami Hiromichi,
Hamashima Yoshitaka
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the chemical record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1528-0691
pISSN - 1527-8999
DOI - 10.1002/tcr.201800132
Subject(s) - microwave , microwave chemistry , scalability , context (archaeology) , organic synthesis , scaling , flow chemistry , process engineering , microwave irradiation , flow (mathematics) , scale (ratio) , organic reaction , nanotechnology , continuous flow , computer science , materials science , chemistry , biochemical engineering , physics , engineering , organic chemistry , telecommunications , catalysis , mechanics , mathematics , database , biology , paleontology , geometry , quantum mechanics
Microwave irradiation has been used for accelerating organic reactions as a heating method and has been proven to be useful in laboratory scale organic synthesis. The major drawback of microwave chemistry is the difficulty in scaling up, mainly because of the low penetration depth of microwaves. The combination of microwave chemistry and flow chemistry is considered to overcome the problem in scaling up of microwave‐assisted organic reactions, and some flow microwave systems have been developed in both academic and industrial communities. In this context, we have demonstrated the scale‐up of fundamental organic reactions using a novel flow microwave system developed by the academic‐industrial alliance between the University of Shizuoka, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and SAIDA FDS. In this Personal Account, we summarize the recent progress of our scalable microwave‐assisted continuous synthesis using the SAIDA flow microwave apparatus.