Abstract
AbstractSupercritical fluids are beginning to be used widely in chemistry. Applications range from extraction and chromatography in analytical chemistry to solvents for reaction chemistry and preparation of new materials. Spectroscopic monitoring is important in much of supercritical chemistry, and vibrational spectroscopy is particularly useful in this context because the vibrational spectrum of a given molecule is usually quite sensitive to the environment of that molecule. Thus, vibrational spectra are excellent probes of conditions within the fluid. In this review, we describe a variety of techniques and cells for IR and Raman spectroscopy in supercritical fluids and illustrate the breadth of applications in supercritical fluids. The examples include: the use of supercritical Xe as a spectroscopically transparent solvent for chemistry and for supercritical fluid chromatography with FTIR detection of analytes; Raman spectroscopy as a monitor for gases dissolved in supercritical CO2; the effect of solvent density on hydrogen bonding in supercritical fluids and the formation of reverse micelles; IR as a monitor for the supercritical impregnation/extraction of polymers and the reactions of organometallic compounds impreganated into polymers; reactions of organometallic compounds in supercritical fluids; and finally, the use of miniature flow reactors for laboratory‐scale preparative chemistry. Overall, our aim is to provide a starting point from which individual readers can judge whether such measurements might usefully be applied to their own particular problems.
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