Drivers for Performing Methylation of Aromatics in Micro Reactors

1 Drivers for Performing Methylation of Aromatics in Micro Reactors 

To achieve excellent thermal control, to use short residence times and to have no back-mixing were the main drivers for an industrial investigation of the methylation of an aromatic. The target molecule yielded thereby, a precursor for a crop-protection product, is temperature sensitive [127]. Accordingly, cryo-processing has to be applied to avoid decomposition when the reaction is conventionally performed. A driver for micro reactor processing would be to enable room-temperature processing or, at least, to increase the reaction temperature closer to ambient 

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