Supercritical hydrogenation and acid-catalysed reactions "without gases".
The high temperature catalytic decomposition of HCO2H and HCO2Et are used to generate the high pressure H2 and the supercritical fluids needed for micro-scale hydrogenation of organic compounds; our approach overcomes the problems and limitations of handling high pressure gases on a small-scale and opens the way to the widespread use of continuous supercritical reactions in the laboratory.
Hyde
Jason R
JR
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD.
Poliakoff
Martyn
M