Syntheses in Molten Salts

Molten salt solutions provide a suitable environment for a number of chemical reactions involving inorganic and organic reactants. 

According to Sundermeyer, chemical processes in molten salts may be divided into the following categories. 

Sundermeyer, who may be considered as one of the leading researchers in this field, has written a comprehensive review on fused salt reactions. A summary of selected syntheses involving only gaseous systems and molten salt is presented in Table V. 

The main advantages for using molten salts as reaction media may be summarized as follows  

At high temperatures and under conditions of intimate contact in the homogeneous solution phase, or for heterogeneous systems in which the reactants are suspended in a molten salt, reactions usually proceed extremely rapidly. 

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The conversion efficiency in syntheses in molten salts is high. 

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