Green Chemistry

Design and evaluation of switchable-hydrophilicity solvents

JR Vanderveen, J Durelle, PG Jessop

Index: Vanderveen, Jesse R.; Durelle, Jeremy; Jessop, Philip G. Green Chemistry, 2014 , vol. 16, # 3 p. 1187 - 1197

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Citation Number: 33

Abstract

Switchable-hydrophilicity solvents (SHSs) are solvents that can switch reversibly between one form that is miscible with water to another that forms a biphasic mixture with water. For these SHSs, we use CO 2 at 1 bar as a stimulus for triggering the transformation to the water- miscible form and removal of CO 2 to achieve the reverse. We now report the identification of 13 new SHSs, including the first secondary amine SHSs, and a comparison of all known ...