Issue 2, 2024

On the role of surfactants: rethinking “aqueous” chemistry

Abstract

Some of the latest technological developments involving chemistry in water are discussed. Although each advance bears little-to-no relationship to the others, in the composite they highlight the seemingly unlimited opportunities for discovering nature's secrets using water as the reaction medium. Thus, in addition to the environmental aspects driving this research, the benefits to be realized in making this switch away from reactions run in organic solvents and into an aqueous medium are clearly indicative of the future of synthetic organic chemistry.

Graphical abstract: On the role of surfactants: rethinking “aqueous” chemistry

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
12 10 2023
Accepted
24 11 2023
First published
11 12 2023

Green Chem., 2024,26, 739-752

On the role of surfactants: rethinking “aqueous” chemistry

B. H. Lipshutz, Green Chem., 2024, 26, 739 DOI: 10.1039/D3GC03875K

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