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Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Volume 14, 2023

Scale-Up of Photochemical Reactions: Transitioning from Lab Scale to Industrial Production

Abstract

In the past two decades, we have witnessed a rapid emergence of new and powerful photochemical and photocatalytic synthetic methods. Although these methods have been used mostly on a small scale, there is a growing need for efficient scale-up of photochemistry in the chemical industry. This review summarizes and contextualizes the advancements made in the past decade regarding the scale-up of photo-mediated synthetic transformations. Simple scale-up concepts and important fundamental photochemical laws have been provided along with a discussion concerning suitable reactor designs that should facilitate scale-up of this challenging class of organic reactions.

Keyword(s): flow chemistry, numbering up, photocatalysis, photochemistry, scale-up, sizing up
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Scale-Up of Photochemical Reactions: Transitioning from Lab Scale to Industrial Production
Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 14, 283 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-101121-074313
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