Organske reakcije u vodi

Abstract

It is an exceptional challenge to perform organic reactions in water. In the last decade, scientific research in the field of water as a green solvent has continued to grow exponentially. Apart from being cheap, water is harmless to the environment and sometimes gives completely unexpected reactivity in reactions. There is a wide range of organic reactions that can take place in water: from common oxidation-reduction reactions, reactions involving carbocations and carbocations, pericyclic reactions, transition metal reactions, and others. Organic reactions in an aqueous medi - um are used in the chemistry of carbohydrates and in the chemical modification of biomolecules. More recently, water has been used as a medium in microwave synthesis. This review gives an insight into the importance of this field, since organic reactions in water as a solvent, take place according to the principles of green chemistry.