Organic Reaction in Green Solvents
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2016) | Viewed by 51834
Special Issue Editors
Interests: homogeneous catalysis; organometallic chemistry; green chemistry; sustainable solvents; deep eutectic solvents; water
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Dear Colleagues,
Due to both environmental and economic issues, chemistry is driven to reduce waste and re-use materials in order to meet the standards of the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry. These Principles have become a widely accepted set of criteria for the assessment of the Greenness of a given chemical transformation.
In this sense, the choice of a safe, non-toxic, biorenewable, and cheap solvent is a crucial goal in metal-catalyzed organic reactions. Thus, one of the largest areas of consumption of petroleum-based chemicals in a conventional metal-catalyzed organic transformation is the solvent used as a reaction medium (i.e., solvents account for 80-90% of mass utilization in a typical pharmaceutical/fine chemical operational process). On top of this, conventional volatile organic solvents (VOCs), commonly used as reaction media in metal-mediated organic procedures, can cause well-established environmental problems due to their: i) high toxicity; ii) non-biodegradability; iii) accumulation in the atmosphere (low boiling points); and iv) flammability.
To overcome the drawbacks of traditional VOCs, and to still benefit from the solvent effect, remarkable research efforts have been focused on the replacement of traditional organic solvents by Green Solvents.
Dr. Joaquín García Álvarez
Dr. Jonathan Sperry
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Green Solvents,
- Water,
- Bio-derived solvents,
- Glycerol,
- scCO2,
- Deep Eutectic Solvents,
- Ionic Liquids,
- perfluorinated solvents
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