Green Shades in Organic Synthesis

With Chemistry playing a pivotal role in defining sustainable development, organic chemistry is a key area in which new solvents can be developed and applied to improve known transformations or to discover new ones. Recoverable catalysts are instrumental for accessing effective green synthetic processes and also are a vital tool for modern organic chemistry. Finally, technologies such as flow chemistry can efficiently maximize the efforts towards energy- and waste-minimized synthetic procedures. In this minireview, which is a personal account on the chemistry developed by my group in the last decade, the use of safer/recoverable solvents, heterogeneous catalysis, and flow reactors are presented as interlocked tools for accessing a green organic chemistry.