Infrared Technique at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source
Could Help Improve Flow Reactor Chemistry for Pharmaceuticals and Other
Products
A pathway to more effective and efficient synthesis of
pharmaceutical drugs and other flow reactor chemical products has been opened
by a study in which for the first time the catalytic reactivity inside a
microreactor was mapped in high resolution from start-to-finish. The results
not only provided a better understanding of the chemistry behind the catalytic
reactions, they also revealed opportunities for optimization, which resulted in
better catalytic performances. The study was conducted by a team of scientists
with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley.