Mieczysław Mąkosza
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Title: Phase –Transfer Catalysis - a General Green Technology of Organic Synthesis
Biography
Biography: Mieczysław Mąkosza
Abstract
Organic synthesis is the main tool for manufacturing pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, materials for electronics etc. There are thousands of organic reactions used as tools in synthesis of desired products. Phase-Transfer Catalysis - PTC offers general and most economic technology for execution of many organic reactions on large scale. Moreover it assures minimalisation of energy consumption and formation of industrial wastes. Due to these features PTC should be considered as the greenest technology. In the lecture basic principles, mechanistic features, scope, limitation and selected examples of industrial application of PTC will be discussed.