Continuous flow chemistry (CFC) is an emerging paradigm in experimental chemistry. The practice of CFC generates new and integrated skills including organic and analytical chemistry, kinetics, engineering and modelling. All these help the better understanding of the fundamentals of chemical processes. CFC has striking advantages: increased heat and mass transfer, high surface/volume ratio, rapid and precise parameter control, safe operation, better selectivity and reproducibility, and it requires low volume of reagents, thus, generates minimal waste. It is expected that deep understanding of the fundamentalsof CFC would promote its implementation into the laboratory practice, since manufacturing in fine and petrol chemistry have long time adapted continuous processes. ThalesNano is very much dedicated to increase the awareness of this methodology, therefore, developed a simple hydrogenation flow reactor(H-Cube Mini) for educational purposes which could also be used as a general utility flow reactor. The reactor, which generates hydrogen on demand by water electrolysis, can operate at up to 100 �C and 100 bar and it has 30 mm cartridges that can be filled with heterogenized catalysts. In the presentation we will discuss text-book reactions including batch to flow translations that would be easily followed by the undergraduate and graduate students.

H-Cube Mini, a compact hydrogenation flow-reactor for educational purposes

247th National Meeting (2014)

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