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Development of a Horizontal Dynamically Mixed Flow Reactor for Laboratory Scale-Up of Photochemical Wohl–Ziegler Bromination
25 Jun 2024 | Contributor(s):: Pratley, Cassie, Shaalan, Youssef, Boulton, Lee, Jamieson, Craig, Murphy, John A., Edwards, Lee J.
Flow reactors with enhanced mixing are of interest to the pharmaceutical industry for a range of photochemical applications. Taylor–Couette (vortex, dynamically mixed) reactors have been reported to have intensified mixing and have been used with heterogeneous systems. Our photochemical workflow...
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The Use of Molecular Oxygen in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Is Flow the Way to Go?
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Hone, CA, Roberge, DM, Kappe, CO
Molecular oxygen is arguably the greenest reagent available to the organic chemist. Most commonly, a diluted form of oxygen gas, consisting of less than 10% O-2 in N-2 ("synthetic air"), is used in pharmaceutical and fine chemical batch manufacturing to effectively address safety concerns when...
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Applications of Flow Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry-Highlights of the Recent Patent Literature
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Hughes, DL
Flow chemistry is playing an increasingly important role in drug discovery, chemical process development, and manufacturing in the pharmaceutical and agrichemical industries. The current review covers patents and patent applications from 2017 to 1Q 2020 for which no accompanying journal articles...