Basic Concepts in Phase-Transfer Catalysis

  • Starks C
  • Liotta C
  • Halpern M
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Abstract

Phase-transfer catalysis (PTC) is a powerful tool in many areas of chemistry. It is a technique for conducting reactions between two or more reagents in two or more phases, when reaction is inhibited because the reactants cannot easily come together. A ``phase-transfer agent'' is added to transfer one of the reagents to a location where it can conveniently and rapidly react with another reagent. It is also necessary that the transferred species be in a highly active state when transferred; otherwise large amounts of phase-transfer agent will be required. This activation function, plus the transfer function, allows phase-transfer catalysis to occur with only a catalytic amount of phase-transfer agent.

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Starks, C. M., Liotta, C. L., & Halpern, M. E. (1994). Basic Concepts in Phase-Transfer Catalysis. In Phase-Transfer Catalysis (pp. 1–22). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0687-0_1

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