Continuous flow azide formation: Optimization and scale-up

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 167, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 556-559

  Delville, Mariëlle M E ^a   Nieuwland, Pieter J ^b   Janssen, Paul ^a   Koch, Kaspar ^b   van Hest, Jan C M ^a   Rutjes, Floris P J T ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b FutureChemistry Holding BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Azide formation; Design of experiment; Diazotransfer; Flow chemistry; Microreactors; Reaction optimization

Indexed keywords

AZIDE FORMATION; DIAZOTRANSFER; FLOW CHEMISTRY; MICRO REACTOR; REACTION OPTIMIZATION;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 79952449943     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.08.087     Document Type: Article

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