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Knoevenagel condensation reaction in a membrane microreactor
Sau Man Lai1, Rosa Martin-Aranda, King Lun Yeung
1Department of Chemical Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR-PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 15, 2003
Abstract:
A multi-channel membrane microreactor was fabricated and tested for Knoevenagel condensation of benzaldehyde and ethyl cyanoacetate using Cs-exchanged faujasite NaX as the catalyst; the membrane microreactor achieves supra-eqiulibrium conversion at higher product purity.