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Strategic Application of Residence-Time Control in Continuous-Flow Reactors
István M Mándity1, Sándor B Ötvös2, Ferenc Fülöp2
1Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Szeged Eötvös u. 6, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary.
Abstract:
As a sustainable alternative for conventional batch-based synthetic techniques, the concept of continuous-flow processing has emerged in the synthesis of fine chemicals. Systematic tuning of the residence time, a key parameter of continuous-reaction technology, can govern the outcome of a chemical reaction by determining the reaction rate and the conversion and by influencing the product selectivity. This review furnishes a brief insight into flow reactions in which high chemo- and/or stereoselectivity can be attained by strategic residence-time control and illustrates the importance of the residence time as a crucial parameter in sustainable method development. Such a fine reaction control cannot be performed in conventional batch reaction set-ups.
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