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Solvent-free routes to clean technology
1Royal Institution of Great Britain, Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, London, UK. dawn@ri.ac.uk
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|August 10, 2001
Abstract:
A major aim for the chemical technology of the future is the avoidance of noxious and environmentally unacceptable organic solvents. In this concept article we discuss more environmentally friendly and highly selective alternatives which we have evolved for carrying out a number of important chemical conversions. These entail the use of porous heterogeneous catalysts in which the active sites have been atomically engineered and fully characterized. Such solid catalysts operate under solvent-free conditions and usually entail one-step processes.