Organic Synthesis Engineering PDF

PREFACE

The last twenty years have witnessed an explosion in the number of books dealing with chemical reaction engineering in one form or another. The subject has undergone a sea change since its beginnings as applied kinetics in Wisconsin more than a half century ago under the inspiring leadership of Olaf A. Hougen, and the process of change continues. To put it simply at the very outset, this book attempts to capture an emerging shift in the context of the growing need (and a hesitant willingness) to integrate chemistry with engineering.

The growth of chemical reaction engineering (CRE) has been marked by an unrestrained expansion of its scope. Thus what started out as an engineering science approach to the design of reactors for conventional organic and inorganic chemical reactions quickly began to encompass reactors for such diverse reactions as biochemical, electrochemical, photochemical, sonochemical, and a variety of other chemically oriented transformations. Lost in this seamless expansion of CRE has been the convergence of certain areas toward an objective focus. More specifically, these areas are increasingly being used for the common purpose of enhancing the rates and selectivities of organic reactions.