Assessment of the Two Alternative Routes to Elliotts Alcohol

After extractive work-up the product is obtained pure enough to be used in the next step vdthout any further purification. 

However, this kind of qualitative greenness assessment, based only on the visual inspection of reaction schemes, may be too limited and may lead to erroneous conclusions. 

Comparative Assessment of the Two Alternative Routes to Elliott s Alcohol 

which is the greener route At the early stages of process development or at the discovery stage this evaluation is usually performed qualitatively by visual inspection of the reaction scheme. At first glance, the shorter route B probably has the lower E-factor. But how much lower And what about the environmental impact Will the 

The E-factor has been calculated for both routes, considering the amounts and yields reported in references [18, 19] for route A and in the Experimental section in reference [21] for route B. 

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