Photoreactor Designs
- Tubular Flow Photoreactors (aka "Plug Flow Photoreactors")
- Falling Film Photoreactors
- Side-loop Photoreactors
- Side-loop Photoreactors
- Thin-film Side-loop Photoreactors
- MISCOP Side-loop Photoreactors (static mixers)
- Radial-flow Side-loop Photoreactors
- Agitated Batch Photoreactors
- Agitated Batch Photoreactors (low visocisty)
- Scrape-mixed Batch Photoreactors (high viscosity)
- Gas-dispersed Batch Photoreactors
- Flat Bed Photoreactors
- Thin Film Flow Photoreactors
- Static Mixer Flow Photoreactors
- Packed Bed Flow Photoreactors
- Gas-liquid Flow Photoreactor
- and more ...
Typical Applications
- Photochlorinations (e.g., Side-chain photochlorinations)
- Benzylic photobrominations for API intermediate synthesis
- (Metalla)photoredox Cross-couplings
- Steriod-hormone Synthesis (e.g., Vitamin D3 derivatives)
- Vitmanin Production (e.g., Vitamin A)
- Rearangements (e.g., Norrish)
- Isomerizations (e.g., Iribotecan by cis-trans isomerization)
- Singlet-oxygen reactions (e.g., Artemisinin and rose oxide synthesis)
- Cycloadditions (e.g., oxetane intermediates via Paternò-Büchi reactions)
- Cryogenic Photo-induced Fluorinations (e.g., Fomblin process)
- Fluoroalkylations (e.g., Trilfuoromethylations with the Langlois reagent)
- C-H Functionalizations