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Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 1(1), pp. 17 - 23
DOI: 10.13189/eee.2013.010104
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Solvent Selection in Transfer Hydrogenation and Suzuki Cross-coupling
Adi Wolfson*, Igor Grinberg, Dorith Tavor
Green Processes Center, Chemical Engineering Department, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Bialik/Basel Sts. Beer-Sheva, 84100 Israel
ABSTRACT
Solvent selection plays a key role in facilitating sustainable chemical processes. The use of green solvents, which facilitate both substrate and catalyst dissolution, increase reaction activity and selectivity, and enable easy separation of the product and recycling of the catalyst, is desirable. But the question of which green solvent to use must consider solvent production processes and whether the solvent can be recycled and re-used. In this study, selected solvents were ranked according to sustainability. Each solvent was evaluated not only for its production process and its physical properties, but also for its performance in reaction (including in terms of product separation) for two representative reactions鈥攖ransfer hydrogenation of unsaturated organic compounds, where the solvent is also a reactant, and Suzuki cross-coupling of halobenzene and phenylboronic acid. Based on solvent life-cycle and physical characteristics ethylene glycol was found to be the most sustainable solvent for the transfer hydrogenation reaction and glycerol was found to be the most sustainable solvent for the Suzuki cross-coupling reaction.
KEYWORDS
Green Chemistry, Green Solvent, Sustainable Solvent, Catalysis, Glycerol, Transfer Hydrogenation, Suzuki Cross Coupling
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Adi Wolfson , Igor Grinberg , Dorith Tavor , "Solvent Selection in Transfer Hydrogenation and Suzuki Cross-coupling," Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 17 - 23, 2013. DOI: 10.13189/eee.2013.010104.
(b). APA Format:
Adi Wolfson , Igor Grinberg , Dorith Tavor (2013). Solvent Selection in Transfer Hydrogenation and Suzuki Cross-coupling. Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION), 1(1), 17 - 23. DOI: 10.13189/eee.2013.010104.