Vortex Fluidic Chemical Transformations

Joshua Britton; Keith A Stubbs; Gregory A Weiss; Colin L Raston

doi:10.1002/chem.201700888

Vortex Fluidic Chemical Transformations

Chemistry. 2017 Sep 27;23(54):13270-13278. doi: 10.1002/chem.201700888. Epub 2017 Aug 16.

Authors

Joshua Britton^{1

2}, Keith A Stubbs³, Gregory A Weiss¹, Colin L Raston²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-2025, USA.
² Centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia.
³ School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.

Abstract

Driving chemical transformations in dynamic thin films represents a rapidly thriving and diversifying research area. Dynamic thin films provide a number of benefits including large surface areas, high shearing rates, rapid heat and mass transfer, micromixing and fluidic pressure waves. Combinations of these effects provide an avant-garde style of conducting chemical reactions with surprising and unusual outcomes. The vortex fluidic device (VFD) has proved its capabilities in accelerating and increasing the efficiencies of numerous organic, materials and biochemical reactions. This Minireview surveys transformations that have benefited from VFD-mediated processing, and identifies concepts driving the effectiveness of vortex-based dynamic thin films.

Keywords: biochemistry; continuous flow; organic synthesis; thin films; vortex fluidics.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

R01 GM100700/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States