Process Design for Organic Reactions in Near-critical and Supercritical Water

摘要

Water, under high-temperature and high-pressure conditions, becomes a tuneable solvent - Supercritical Water (SCW), which is now opening the door to completely new opportunities in chemistry. Here we report the process design to carry out cleaner organic reactions where SCW is used as an alternative and friendlier solvent. A multipurpose, continuous flow system has been designed for organic reactions in SCW. The configuration of the reactor was designed in order to perform either non-catalysed or homogeneously catalysed organic reactions in SCW.