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Book SynopsisPharmaceutical and fine chemical products are typically synthesised batchwise which is an anomaly since batch processes have a series of practical and economical disadvantages. On the contrary, flow continuous processes present a series of advantages leading to new ways to synthesise chemical products. Flow processes - * enable control reaction parameters more precisely (temperature, residence time, amount of reagents and solvent etc.), leading to better reproducibility, safer and more reliable processes * can be performed more advantageously using immobilized reagents or catalysts * improve the selectivity and productivity of the process and possibly even the stability of the catalyst * offer opportunities for heat exchange and energy conservation as well as an easy separation and recycling of the reactants and products by adequate process design * achieve multistep syntheses by assembling a line of reactors with minimum or no purification in between two reaction steps * can be assure
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Engineering Factors for Efficient Flow Processes in Chemical Industries; Chapter 2: Flow Processes Using Polymer-supported Reagents, Scavengers and Catalysts; Chapter 3: Zeolites and related Materials for Developing Continuous Flow Systems; Chapter 4: Microfluidic Devices for Organic Processes; Chapter 5: Flow Processes in non-Conventional Media;
