Buxing Han
Institute of Chemistry - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Trends in Green chem
Many conventional chemical processes result in environmental pollution and are sustainable. Green chemistry is the future of chemistry and chemical industry. Effective utilization of green solvents, such as water, supercritical fluids (SCFs), ionic liquids (ILs), liquid polymers, switchable solvents is an important area of green chemistry. The use of green solvents provides additional control factors for optimizing different chemical processes. Recently, much attention has been paid to the properties and applications of green solvents in extraction and fractionation, chemical reactions, and material synthesis. Many processes that use green solvents have been commercialized. The field of green solvents has a very bright future and there are many challenges from both fundamental and practical point of view. In recent years, we are very interested in physicochemical properties of green solvents and their applications in green chemistry, which include mainly: 1) phase behavior, intermolecular molecular interaction, and the microstructures in complex SCFs, ILs, supercritical (SC) CO2/IL systems; 2) colloid and interface science of green solvent systems, including chemical thermodynamics, microstructures, and functions; 3) effects of phase behavior and intermolecular interactions on the properties of chemical reactions in SC CO2, ILs, SC CO2/water, water/ ILs, and SC CO2/ILs; 4) synthesis of highly efficient catalytic materials using green solvents; 5) development of greener routes for the transformation of CO2, biomass and aromatics into value-added chemicals in green solvents, and the optimization of the reaction processes using the designable and tunable features of green solvents. In this presentation, I would like to discuss some recent results.
Email: Hanbx@iccas.ac.cn
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