Themed collection Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Review Articles

Continuous flow synthesis offers potential for large-scale production of metal–organic frameworks with control of composition and microstructure for practical applications.

Precision polymer design in continuous photoflow reactors is a young, yet rapidly growing research field. The potential of photopolymerization is demonstrated and future potential is discussed.

This collaborative review (between teams of chemists and chemical engineers) describes the current scientific and operational hurdles that prevent the utilisation of aerobic oxidation reactions for the production of speciality chemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).

This review outlines the combination of infrared spectroscopy and continuous microfluidic processes.

The procedures and conditions that need to be fulfilled to be able to carry out appropriate in situ and operando diffuse reflectance FT-IR (DRIFTS) analyses are discussed.

In this review the recent progress in the field of self-optimizing reactor systems for continuous flow chemistry is presented.

Biocatalysis is a growing area of synthetic and process chemistry with the ability to deliver not only improved processes for the synthesis of existing compounds, but also new routes to new compounds.

Controlled radical polymerization (CRP) represents an important advancement in polymer chemistry. It allows synthesis of polymers with well-controlled chain microstructures.