Clean Solvents focuses on the use of clean solvents for chemical processes, with an emphasis on chemical reactions, in a single comprehensive volume.

The chapters present a rather broad overview describing the use of benign solvents as alternative solvent media. This is the first volume to cover the wide range of clean solvents that can be used for industrial processes, and the first to describe the benefits of these alternative solvents in the context of conventional technologies.

Clean Solvents is useful for chemists and engineers who are evaluating alternative solvent systems and academic and industrial researchers.

Contents

1. Green Chemistry as Applied to Solvents
2. Ionic Liquids: Green Solvents for the Future
3. Synthesis of Ionic Liquid and Silica Composites Doped with Dicyclohexyl-18-Crown-6 for Sequestration of Metal Ions
4. Viscosity and Density of 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Ionic Liquids
5. Reusable Reaction Systems Derived from Flourous Solvents or Ionic Liquids and Catalysts
6. Enzyme Activity Using a Perfluoropolyether-Modified NAD(H) in Flourous Solvents and Carbon Dioxide
7. Separation of Species from Ionic Liquids
8. Catalysis Using Supercritical or Subcritical Inert Gases under Split-Phase Conditions
9. Continuous Polymerizations in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
10. An Investigation of Friedel-Crafts Alkylation Reactions in Super- and Subcritical CO2 and under Solventless Reaction Conditions
11. Lewis Acid Catalysis in Clean Solvents, Water, and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
12. Developing Green Chemistry: Organometallic Reactions in Aqueous Media
13. Organic Reactions in Water and Other Alternative Media: Metal-Mediated Carbon-Carbon Bond Formations
14. Micellar Catalysis as a Clean Alternative for Selective Epoxidation Reactions
15. Aqueous Polyglycol Solutions as Alternative Solvents
16. Greener Solvent Selection under Uncertainty
17. Dibasic Ester: A Low Risk, Green Organic Solvent Alternative

Index

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