Title: Atom Economy – Principles and Some Examples
Abstract: Abstract The concept of atom economy was introduced in the early 1990s by Trost and Sheldon to emphasize the importance of minimizing the waste created by chemical reactions. Atom economy can be defined as the reduction, if not the elimination, of all the atoms introduced in the process that do not end up in the desired product. This idea came together with a desire to be able to measure rationally the created waste and several criteria of atom economy were thus grafted. Since then, many new chemical reactions that can be called atom economical have been developed. In this chapter, the context, the principle, the criteria and the tool box of atom economy will be presented. A mini‐review on atom economical processes involving CH activation follows.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-06-28
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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