Production of pharmaceuticals: Amines from alcohols in a continuous flow fixed bed catalytic reactor

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1533-1540

  Lamb, Gareth W ^a   Al Badran, Firas A ^b   Williams, Jonathan M J ^a   Kolaczkowski, Stan T ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borrowing hydrogen; Continuous pharmaceutical processing; Morpholine; N Alkylation of amines using alcohols; Production of amines

Indexed keywords

BENZYL ALCOHOL; BORROWING HYDROGEN; CATALYTIC REACTOR; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTORS; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; CONTINUOUS PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESSING; CONTINUOUS-FLOW PROCESS; FIXED BED; MOLAR RATIO; MORPHOLINE; MORPHOLINES; N-ALKYLATION; P-XYLENE; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; POLYMER BEADS; RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES; SCREENING EXPERIMENTS; TERTIARY AMINE;

ALKYLATION; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BATCH REACTORS; DRUG PRODUCTS; HYDROGEN; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

AMINES;

EID: 78649782930     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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