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ArticleChemical science2019

Scale-up of microdroplet reactions by heated ultrasonic nebulization.

Chengyuan Liu, Jia Li, Hao Chen, Richard N Zare

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Article in Chemical science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Chengyuan LiuDepartment of Chemistry , Fudan University , Shanghai 200438 , China . Email: rnz@fudan.edu.cn.
Jia LiDepartment of Chemistry , Fudan University , Shanghai 200438 , China . Email: rnz@fudan.edu.cn.
Hao ChenDepartment of Chemistry & Environmental Science , New Jersey Institute of Technology , Newark , NJ 07102 , USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8090-8593
Richard N ZareDepartment of Chemistry , Fudan University , Shanghai 200438 , China . Email: rnz@fudan.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5266-4253
Fudan University · CNNew Jersey Institute of Technology · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dramatically higher rates for a variety of chemical reactions have been reported in microdroplets compared with those in the liquid bulk phase. However, the scale-up of microdroplet chemical synthesis has remained a major challenge to the practical application of microdroplet chemistry. Heated ultrasonic nebulization (HUN) was found as a new way for scaling up chemical synthesis in microdroplets. Four reactions were examined, a base-catalyzed Claisen-Schmidt condensation, an oximation reaction from a ketone, a two-phase oxidation reaction without the use of a phase-transfer-catalyst, and an Eschenmoser coupling reaction. These reactions show acceleration of one to three orders of magnitude (122, 23, 6536, and 62) in HUN microdroplets compared to the same reactions in bulk solution. Then, using the present method, the scale-up of the reactions was achieved at an isolated rate of 19 mg min

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