Matthew J. Takle, Linden Schrecker, Benjamin J. Deadman, Joachim Dickhaut, Andy Wieja, Klaus Hellgardt, King Kuok Mimi Hii
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Abstract
The robustness of the flash thermal racemization of optically active 1-phenylethylamine over Pd/γ-Al2O3 was studied by applying split-plot design-of-experiments (DoE), where the effects of temperature, flow rate, and concentration (3-factors) on the e.e. and selectivity (2-responses) were examined and quantified. The same effects were also interrogated using multivariate ramps in transient flow to produce response surfaces for the reaction space. The same set of optimal conditions for the process was identified by both approaches, and the same relationships between the variables were observed: while the extent of racemization (e.e.) can be directly correlated to temperature, a more complex relationship between temperature and flow rate on the selectivity was uncovered.
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The journal Organic Process Research & Development serves as a communication tool between industrial chemists and chemists working in universities and research institutes. As such, it reports original work from the broad field of industrial process chemistry but also presents academic results that are relevant, or potentially relevant, to industrial applications. Process chemistry is the science that enables the safe, environmentally benign and ultimately economical manufacturing of organic compounds that are required in larger amounts to help address the needs of society. Consequently, the Journal encompasses every aspect of organic chemistry, including all aspects of catalysis, synthetic methodology development and synthetic strategy exploration, but also includes aspects from analytical and solid-state chemistry and chemical engineering, such as work-up tools,process safety, or flow-chemistry. The goal of development and optimization of chemical reactions and processes is their transfer to a larger scale; original work describing such studies and the actual implementation on scale is highly relevant to the journal. However, studies on new developments from either industry, research institutes or academia that have not yet been demonstrated on scale, but where an industrial utility can be expected and where the study has addressed important prerequisites for a scale-up and has given confidence into the reliability and practicality of the chemistry, also serve the mission of OPR&D as a communication tool between the different contributors to the field.