Recent Strategies in Organic Reactions Catalyzed by Phase Transfer Catalysts and Analyzed by Gas Chromatography

Abstract

The field of catalysis provides chemists with new and powerful tools for the efficient synthesis of complex organic molecules. It is suitable for carrying out chemical and biochemical reactions at a high rate in nature as well as in organic synthesis. Catalysis expert’s foresee catalysis among the most promising fields of basic research. This methodology can be applied to solve many fundamental, technological, environmental and social problems that face humanity. It finds application in modern chemical and petrochemical industries. Reactions involving two substances located in different phases of a reaction mixture are often inhibited due to the reagents inability to come into contact with each other. In such reactions, conventional techniques are environmentally and industrially unattractive. Nevertheless these reactions can be successfully promoted by a popular catalysis methodology viz., phase-transfer catalysis (PTC) under mild operating conditions (Sasson & Neumann,1997; Mahdavi & Tamami, 2005; Barbasiewicz et al., 2006; Sharma et al., 2006; Devulapelli & Weng, 2009; Yang & Peng, 2010). Phase-transfer catalysts are being combined with enzymes in biotechnological processes and with transition metals in supramolecular chemistry and nano technology (Lancaster, 2002).