Green Solvents

Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 241-261

  Breeden, Simon W ^a   Clark, James H ^a   Macquarrie, Duncan J ^a   Sherwood, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosolvents and 'like for like' replacements; Diels Alder reaction, target for green chemists; Glycerol, as solvent in Suzuki and Heck reaction; Green chemistry philosophy, and solvent chemists; Green synthetic techniques; Palladium catalysed cross coupling; RCM, and diallyl tosylamide RCM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886119730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470711828.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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