Application of Cold Plasma in Organic Reaction

Abstract

Organic plasma chemistry is the valuable and novel field of preparative chemistry in which a variety of active species generated by glow discharge such as free radical, electron, ion, excited molecule, and photon are utilized. The reactions include cyclization, dehydrogenation, isomerization, elimination, substitution, reduction, polymerization, and others. During the last decade a number of preparative methods have been reported and some of them were summarized in this brief article. In addition, plasma reduction and plasma-initiated polymerzation, in both cases energetic electrons in the gas phase transfer to liquid phase and attack subsequently to the molecules, will be introduced. Plasma polymerization is now becoming a common method to give organic thin films. Their structures, properties, and applications will also be described. © 1986, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan. All rights reserved.