A chemistapos;s wish finally becomes reality: microreactors for every synthetic laboratory! By precipitation polymerization various polymers are introduced into the irregular pore system of a porous glass rod. By embedding these rods into a housing, followed by functionalization and immobilization of reagents onto the polymer phase, versatile microreactors are obtained. With this apparatus, chemical transformations in solution can be performed, for example, a steroid derivatization.
Keywords: immobilization; microreactor; polymerization; solid-phase syntheses; synthetic methods.
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