
Tailored catalysis for the F&F industry
Author(s) -
Denis Jacoby
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2021.634
Subject(s) - atom economy , catalysis , homogeneous , aldol condensation , chemistry , carbon fibers , aldol reaction , homogeneous catalysis , green chemistry , biochemical engineering , nanotechnology , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , computer science , materials science , reaction mechanism , physics , engineering , thermodynamics , composite number , algorithm
Over the past decades, scientists at Firmenich have focused their efforts on continuously improving chemical transformations for the production of F&F ingredients in order to make them safer, cleaner, more efficient and consequently cost effective, through the implementation of the Green Chemistry principles. Numerous examples of innovant catalytic technologies could be cited, particularly in the field of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation. Nevertheless, we chose here to provide a rare insight into the industrial application of some very useful and atom-economic carbon-carbon bond forming reactions. We selected two examples among others as a good illustration of how catalysis makes the difference compared to conventional stoichiometric approaches. The first example deals with catalyzed cross-aldol condensation and the second example concerns catalysis of cross-coupling reactions.