New Solvents and Green Chemistry

Recent work has highlighted the potential of biologically based solvents for their special properties and “green” character. These new solvents offer a range of properties that have raised hopes of better synthetic methods and major improvements in environmental and workplace safety. Supercritical s...

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Published inSolvent Effects in Chemistry p. 1
Main Authors Stairs, Robert A, Buncel, Erwin
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States John Wiley & Sons 2016
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Edition2nd Edition
Subjects
ammonia
carbon dioxide
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Diels‐Alder reactions
green chemistry
hydrocarbon
hydroformylation
hydrogenation
Industrial Chemistry & Chemicals
ionic liquids
oligomerization
water
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Summary:Recent work has highlighted the potential of biologically based solvents for their special properties and “green” character. These new solvents offer a range of properties that have raised hopes of better synthetic methods and major improvements in environmental and workplace safety. Supercritical solvents include carbon dioxide, water, ammonia, and a number of lower hydrocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons. Room‐temperature ionic liquids have recently attracted a great deal of industrial interest. A number of reaction types may be advantageously carried out in room‐temperature ionic liquids which include Friedel‐Crafts acylations and alkylations, Diels‐Alder reactions, Hydrogenation and Hydroformylation and Oligomerization. Low transition temperature mixtures are prepared by simply warming together any of a large number of hydrogen‐bond donors with any of a group of acceptors. “Greenness” as it relates to solvents has two aspects: the nature of the solvent and how it is used.
ISBN:1119030986
9781119030980
DOI:10.1002/9781119044307.ch8