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Research: Science and Education
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Chemical Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
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Chien M. Wai, Fred Hunt, Min Ji, and Xiaoyuan Chen
University of Idaho, Department of Chemistry, Moscow, ID 83844-2343
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December 1998
Vol. 75 No. 12
p. 1641
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| Abstract |
Utilizing supercritical fluids as environmentally benign solvents for chemical synthesis is one of the new approaches in the "greening" of chemistry. Carbon dioxide is the most widely used gas for supercritical fluid studies because of its moderate critical constants, nontoxic nature, and availability in pure form. One unique property of supercritical carbon dioxide (sc-CO2) is its high solubility for fluorinated compounds. Thus sc-CO2 can be used to replace Freons that are conventionally used as solvents for synthesis of perfluoro-polymers. Another property of sc-CO2 is its miscibility with gases such as H2. Heterogeneous reactions involving these gases may become homogeneous reactions in sc-CO2. Reactions in sc-CO2 may offer several advantages including controlling phase behavior and products, increasing speed of reactions, and obtaining specific reaction channels. This paper describes the following nine types of chemical reactions reported in the literature utilizing sc-CO2 as a solvent to illustrate the unique properties of the supercritical fluid reaction systems: (i) hydrogenation and hydroformylation, (ii) synthesis of organometallic compounds, (iii) metal chelation and extraction, (iv) preparation of inorganic nanoparticles, (v) stereo-selectivity of lipase-catalyzed reactions, (vi) asymmetric catalytic hydrogenation, (vii) polymerization, (viii) Diels-Alder reaction, and (ix) free radical reactions.
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Wai, Chien M.; Hunt, Fred; Ji, Min; Chen, Xiaoyuan. J. Chem. Educ. 1998 75 1641.
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Keywords |
Organic Synthesis; Inorganic Synthesis; Organometallics
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June 24, 2005
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