Large-scale photochemical reactions of nanocrystalline suspensions: a promising green chemistry method.
Photochemical reactions in the solid state can be scaled up from a few milligrams to 10 grams by using colloidal suspensions of a photoactive molecular crystal prepared by the solvent shift method. Pure products are recovered by filtration, and the use of H(2)O as a suspension medium makes this method a very attractive one from a green chemistry perspective. Using the photodecarbonylation of dicumyl ketone (DCK) as a test system, we show that reaction efficiencies in colloidal suspensions rival those observed in solution. [reaction: see text]
Veerman
Marcel
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA.
Resendiz
Marino J E
MJ
Garcia-Garibay
Miguel A
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