Automating multistep flow synthesis: approach and challenges in integrating chemistry, machines and logic

• Chinmay A. Shukla and
• Amol A. Kulkarni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 960–987, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.97

Flow through reactors for organic chemistry: directly electrically heated tubular mini reactors as an enabling technology for organic synthesis

• Ulrich Kunz and
• Thomas Turek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 70, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.70

• reaction is not only a suitable model but also one of industrial importance since this is the main production process for formic acid. Keywords: direct electric heating; flow reactors; micro reactors; organic chemistry; reaction kinetics; Introduction Continuously operated small reactors for organic

• liquid in cars e.g. for preheating the motor cooling fluid [12]. But in the device described the resistor wire is coiled onto a tube which is used for conducting the fluid. The tube itself is not used as the heating element. Heating micro reactors made of finely structured plates by electric current is

• reactor concept of resistive heating is still limited to small reactors, that means diameters in the range of several millimeters and lengths to several 0.1 m up to 1–2 m are possible. From cost aspects micro reactors made of thin metal plates with channel dimensions in the sub millimeter range in

The development and evaluation of a continuous flow process for the lipase- mediated oxidation of alkenes

• Charlotte Wiles,
• Marcus J. Hammond and
• Paul Watts

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 27, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.27

• biocatalyst with respect to peracid formation, facilitating a series of oxidations including alkenes [21] and ketones via the Baeyer–Villiger reaction [22] and retaining the broad substrate specificity of Candida antarctica lipase B. In the past decade micro reactors, and more generically continuous flow