Microreactors in Preparative Chemistry

PREFACEPRINCIPLES OF MICROPROCESS TECHNOLOGY IntroductionHistoryBasic Characteristics Industrial Applications Concluding RemarksEFFECTS OF MICROFLUIDICS ON PREPARATIVE CHEMISTRY PROCESSES Introduction Mixing Heat Management Mass Transfer and Chemical Reactions Flow Separation Numbering-Up Strategy Practical Exercise: Experimental Characterization of Mixing in Microstructured Reactors MODULAR MICRO- AND MILLIREACTOR SYSTEMS FOR PREPARATIVE CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND BIOPROCESSES Introduction Modular Microreaction SystemExamples for Microreactor Applications Laboratory Exercise: Suzuki Reaction in a Modular Microreactor SetupPOTENTIAL OF LAB-ON-A-CHIP: SYNTHESIS, SEPARATION, AND ANALYSIS OF BIOMOLECULES Introduction Learning from Nature: Analogies to Living CellsMicroenzyme Reactors Microchip Electrophoresis Microenzyme Membrane Reactor/Micromembrane Chromatography Nucleic Acid Analysis in Microchannels Saccharide Analyses in Microdevices Practical Exercise: Lipase-Catalyzed Esterification Reaction BIOPROCESSING IN MICROREACTORS Introduction Background Practical Exercise: Functionalization of Silicon Surface SYNTHESIS OF FINE CHEMICALS Introduction Organic Synthesis in Liquid and Liquid - Liquid Phases Gas - Liquid Biphasic Organic Synthesis Practical Exercise: Photochemical Generation of Singlet Oxygen and Its [4 + 2] Cycloaddition to Cyclopentadiene SYNTHESIS OF NANOMATERIALS USING CONTINUOUS-FLOW MICROREACTORSIntroduction Microfluidic DevicesSynthesis of Nanomaterials Using Microreactors Kinetic Studies Process OptimizationPoint-of-Use Synthesis and Deposition Practical Exercises: Synthesis of NanocrystalsPOLYMERIZATION IN MICROFLUIDIC REACTORS Introduction Practical Considerations Single-Phase PolymerizationMultiphase Polymerization Beyond Synthesis: New Developments for Next-Generation MF Polymerization Practical Exercise: MF Polymerization Reactor Kinetics Studies Using In Situ CharacterizationELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS IN MICROREACTORS IntroductionElectrode

Wladimir Reschetilowski is Director of the Institute of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Technology Dresden, Germany. Having obtained his academic degrees from Technical University Leuna-Merseburg, he began his career working at the Leipzig University, continued it for DECHEMA (Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Frankfurt/M.) as the Head of the Department of Technical Chemistry before taking up his present appointment as Full Professor at the University of Technology Dresden. Professor Reschetilowski has authored over 200 scientific publications in the field of acid and bifunctional catalytic conversion of hydrocarbons by microporous and mesoporous solids, asymmetric synthesis on chiral-modified catalyst systems, application of microstructured reactors in preparative chemistry and catalyticconversion of bio-based raw materials into organic base products and fuels. He is awarded with an honorary professorship by St.-Petersburg State University of Technology and is known as the principal author of the compendium 'Academic curriculum of teaching technical chemistry' in German Universities as well as of the teaching book 'Technisch-chemisches Praktikum'. He is also appointed expert of the accreditation agency in engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences and mathematics (ASIIN).