Microreactor: New Device for Organic and Enzymatic Synthesis.

This review summarized recent progress in synthetic chemistry in microchannel reactor, in which the feature of microchannel reactor itself and variety of reactions in microchannel reactor were presented. There is a basic difference between fluidic system in batch scale and that in microchannel which is caused by difference of those geometry. First, solution forms laminar flow in microchannel. Second, short diameter of microchannel enhances the efficiency of transport of mass and heat. Recent reports revealed that microchannel reactor is not only feasible tool for a safe and highly efficient reaction, also feasible tool for highly stereo-controlled or rapid reactions.