Alternative solvents for green chemistry
Alternative solvents - including supercritical fluids and room temperature ionic liquids - form a significant portion of research in green chemistry. This is in part due to the hazards of many conventional solvents (e.g. toxicity and flammability) and the significant contribution that solvents make...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Royal Society of Chemistry
2009
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| Series: | RSC Green chemistry
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| Collection: | RSC eBook Collection 1968-2009 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 - Introduction
- Introduction
- Safety Considerations, Life Cycle Assessment and Green Metrics
- Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS)
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Solvents in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Immediate Alternatives to Common Laboratory Solvents
- Solvent Properties Including Polarity
- Summary
- References
- 2 - 'Solvent-Free' Chemistry
- Introduction
- Chemical Examples
- Inorganic and Materials Synthesis
- Organic Synthesis
- Microwave-assisted reactions
- Photoreactions
- Summary and Outlook for the Future
- References
- 3 - Water
- Introduction
- Biphasic systems
- Chemical Examples
- Extraction
- Chemical Synthesis
- Metal mediated and catalyzed reactions
- Microwave assisted reactions
- Biocatalysis
- Carbon dioxide fixation
- Materials Synthesis
- High-temperature, superheated or near-critical water
- Summary and Outlook for the Future
- References
- 4 - Supercritical Fluids
- Introduction, Chemical Examples
- Supercritical and Liquid Carbon Dioxide, Solubility in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
- Extraction
- Chemical synthesis
- Heterogeneous catalytic reactions in scCO2
- Biphasic CO2 - aqueous and CO2 - ionic liquid systems
- Biocatalysis in scCO2
- Materials synthesis and modification
- Supercritical Water and Near-Critical Water
- Extraction and Analytical Chemistry
- Chemical synthesis
- Materials synthesis
- Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO)
- Summary and Outlook for the Future
- References
- 5 - Renewable Solvents
- Introduction
- Chemical examples
- Alcohols including Glycerol
- Esters
- Biodiesel
- 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MeTHF)
- Terpenes and Plant oils
- Renewable alkanes
- Ionic liquids and eutectic mixtures prepared from bio-feedstocks
- Summary and Outlook for the Future
- References
- 6 - Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Eutectic Mixtures
- Introduction
- Chemical Examples
- Extractions using RTILS
- Electrochemistry in RTILS
- Synthesis in RTILS
- Polyethylene glycol in aqueous biphasic reactive extraction
- Polyethylene glycol in the synthesis of materials
- Poly(dimethylsiloxane) as a non-volatile reaction medium
- Summary and Outlook for the Future
- References
- 9 - Tunable and Switchable Solvent Systems
- Introduction
- Chemical Examples
- Gas Expanded Liquids
- Solvent properties of CXLs
- Applications of CXLs
- Solvents of Switchable Polarity
- Switchable Surfactants
- Solvents of Switchable Volatility
- Thermomorphic and Related Biphasic Catalysis
- Summary and Outlook for the Future
- References
- 10 - Industrial Case Studies
- Introduction
- Examples
- Selected applications of water as a solvent and reaction medium
- Selected applications of carbon dioxide as a solvent and reaction medium
- Selected applications of room temperature ionic liquids in industry
- Summary and Outlook
- References
- Subject Index
- Biocatalysis in RTILs
- Polymer synthesis and processing
- Selected unconventional uses of RTILs
- Summary and Outlook for the Future
- References
- 7 - Fluorous Solvents and Related Systems
- Introduction
- Overview of fluorous approach
- Fluorous solvent polarity data, solubility and miscibility data
- Fluorous catalysts and reagents
- Chemical Examples
- Fluorous extractions and fluorous analytical chemistry
- Fluorous reactions
- Fluorous Biphase Catalysis
- Continuous Fluorous Biphase Catalysis
- Fluorous Biological Chemistry and Biocatalysis
- Fluorous Combinatorial Chemistry
- Fluorous Materials Chemistry
- Summary and Outlook for the Future
- References
- 8 - Liquid Polymers
- Introduction
- Properties of Aqueous PEG solutions
- Chemical Examples
- Polyethylene glycol and Polypropylene glycol as non-volatile reaction media
- Polyethylene glycol as a reaction solvent
- Liquid polyethylene glycol in organic synthesis