Here:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/supercritical/scintro.html (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/supercritical/scintro.html)
follow the links to:
- Hydrogenation
- Organometallic
- Friedel-Crafts
- etc.
Although technically not trivial this seems to me a interesting read and I propose that in future SC-technology will become widely available - green chemistry and more.
The dangers of high-pressure are easily circumvented by the use of flow-reactors and microtubing. And as we know - HPLC apparati dont tend to explode too ;D
The articles referenced from that page, which clarify the methodology as to how some supercritical reactions are carried out in the laboratory ;)
New Directions in Inorganic and Metal-Organic Coordination Chemistry in Supercritical Fluids, Jawwad A. Darr and Martyn Poliakoff, Chem. Rev.1999, 99, 495-541.
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Supercritical Fluids as Solvents for Chemical and Materials processing, Eckert, C. A., Knutson, B. L., Debendetti, P. G., Nature, 1996, 383, 313.
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Homogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, Jessop, Ph. G., Ikariya, T., Noyori, R., Nature 1994, 368, 231.
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