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Process intensification via OSN assisted synthesis: towards more environmentally benign chemical production D. Ormerod, A. Buekenhoudt, P. Vandezande
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Outline
VITO short Process intensification of high dilution reactions
• Ouline of the problem • A solution via OSN • Experimental results
coupling catalyzed reactions to a membrane • Flow reactor results
conclusion
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Flemish Institute of Technological Research
Oostende Berchem Mol
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Sustainable chemistry : Process Intensification
PI : bridge between 3 P’s
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Vito-VID: background
Example : intramolecular macrocyclisation reactions Consequence • Low productivity of batch reactions • Higher production costs based on reactor and solvent use • Increased environmental impact of API production
Some reactions must be carried out at high dilution
+ reagents solvent
A real example from the pharmaceutical industry being formation of a 14-membered ring carried out at a dilution that in a 6000L reactor only ± 50 Kg product formed.
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One solution
Features of the pseudo/simulated high dilution conditions : Slow addition of substrate at high dilution Reactor contains a relatively high concentration of reactants Better but still relatively high solvent use : 10 – 100 l/mol Better Process Mass Intensity (PMI) Not overall efficient : only kinetic product formation, no reversible reactions
Pseudo/simulated high dilution (Ziegler et al., 1955)
High concentration of reactants
Low concentration of substrate
Slow addition
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Vito-VID: membrane controlled Volume Intense Dilution
FeedTank
reactionvessel
Membrane with relatively high rejection for solute but not 100%
Solution of reaction starting material at high concentration
Reaction reagents at high concentration
Due to membrane solution of starting material at low concentration
Membrane 2 with as high as possible rejection for all solutes in reactor
Due to solvent recovery by membrane 2 overall effect is reactions are carried out at high dilution but with low solvent use and peak volumes
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Vito-VID: single membrane configuration
Alternative VID : conventional mixer for substrate addition
High concentration of substrate
Membrane 1 for solvent recovery
Mixer for slow substrate addition
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Vito-VID: model reaction
Model reaction : macro-cyclization reaction Mitsunobu lactonization to form a 13-membered ring
OO
N
OH
O
OH
R
Chemical Formula: C32H41N3O6SMolecular Weight: 595.75
Chemical Formula: C32H39N3O5SMolecular Weight: 577.73
O N
OO
R
OPh3P, DIAD
Solvents : DCM, toluene or THF
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Vito-VID: Batchwise reactions
Product yield in standard batch reactions
11.7
41.95
51.85 57.95
77.12
28.4
63.8
82.7
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Batchwise yield vs solvent volume -Mitsunobu lactonization
THF
dcm
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Vito-VID: experimental results
Slow addition with an OSN membrane
Addition with : different membranes different concentration of substrate in feed solution
membrane Solvent Flux (Lm-2h-1bar-1)
Rejection (%)
Feed concentratio
n
Permeate concentratio
n
(L/mol) (L/mol)
0.9 nm 50 cm single
tube DCM 3.00 99.4 24.0 4000
Duramem-200 THF 1.01 97.26 21.6 800
Duramem-300 THF 2.03 79.4 36.6 177
Puramem-350S THF 12.0 95.6 37.0 844
Controllable addition
FeedTank
reactionvessel
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Experimental results Solvent recycling and slow substrate addition with a mixer
Solvent recycling with : 50 cm Inopor 0.9 nm DM-200 Substrate dilution : 200 l/mol 500 l/mol Substrate feed tank : 25 l/mol
analysis analysis
diafiltration
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Vito-VID: experimental results
Results second VID configuration • DM-200 • Mixer tank 200 l/mol • DCM
substrate product TPPO feed 1,109 0 39,34 R1 0 0,4871 20,224 R2 0 0,7535 10,165 R3 0 1,139 10,197 R4 0 1,4659 10,907 R5 0 1,5433 10,566 R6 0 1,7482 11,786 R7 0 1,6957 11,456
Permeates substrate product TPPO
P1 0 0,0068 1,245 P2 0,012 0,016 0,402 P3 0 0,0216 0,371 P4 0 0,0297 0,392 P5 0 0,031 0,394 P6 0 0,0314 0,4 P7 0 0,0316 0,412
Retentates
Rejection substrate product TPPO
P1 98,6 93,8 P2 97,9 96,0 P3 98,1 96,4 P4 98,0 96,4 P5 98,0 96,3 P6 98,2 96,6 P7 98,1 96,4
Rejections constant
Conversion 100%
Yield 66 %
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Vito-VID: experimental results
Results second VID configuration • 0.9 nm TiO2 • Mixer tank 500 l/mol • DCM
Retentates
Rejection to low
name substrate product TPPO feed 0,7529 0 43,23 R1 0 0,1675 30,0003 R2 0 0,225 26,6789 R3 0,0238 0,2638 24,0592 R4 0,1263 0,2822 23,3343 R5 0,0464 0,4032 26,5557 R6 0,0587 0,3205 26,5667 R7 0,0564 0,3176 25,9881 R8 0,0539 0,3707 27,3066
Permeates name substrate product TPPO
P1 0 0 2,7039 P2 0 0,0119 2,3638 P3 0,0164 0,009 1,5248 P4 0 0,0089 2,1576 P5 0 0,0273 4,0954 P6 0 0,0092 2,4551 P7 0 0 2,5561 P8 0 0,0054 2,4803
Rejection name substrate product TPPO
P1 >99.5 91,0 P2 #DIV/0! 94,7 91,1 P3 31,1 96,6 93,7 P4 >99.5 96,8 90,8 P5 >99.5 93,2 84,6 P6 >99.5 97,1 90,8 P7 >99.5 >99.5 90,2 P8 >99.5 98,5 90,9
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diafiltration volumes
Yield 21 %
Reaction occurs at concentration of the storage tank (no mixing in
the mixer tank)
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Vito-VID: experimental results
Results second VID configuration
PP
C26H24P2398.42
PP
O
C26H24OP2414.42
PP
O
O
C26H24O2P2430.42
P
C18H15P262.29
PO
C18H15OP278.28
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Vito-VID: experimental results
Results second VID configuration • 0.9 nm TiO2 • Mixer tank 200 l/mol • DCM
Rejection phosphines 94
- > 99.5%
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0 1 2 3 4
Prod
uct
Yiel
d (%
)
diafiltration volumes
Rejections name substrate product DPP DPPO DPPOO
P1 98,9 91,9 94,2 95,9 P2 >99.5 98,0 94,7 96,3 >99.9 P3 >99.5 97,9 95,9 96,4 >99.9 P4 >99.5 94,4 93,8 93,6 95,6 P5 >99.5 97,9 97,3 97,0 >99.9 P6 >99.5 98,2 97,6 97,3 >99.9 P7 >99.5 98,4 99,8 98,1 94,6 P8 >99.5 98,5 >99.9 98,6 92,0
Conversion 84% Yield/conversion 91%
Yield 76 %
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Vito-VID: experimental results
Results second VID configuration
Yields as of batch reaction but with much lower peak volumes and solvent use
Up to 40 % reduction in PMI with unoptimized initial reactions !
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Conclusions
New Volume Intensified Dilution Processing :
in-situ solvent recovery with OSN
+ high dilution substrate addition from low dilution feed tank
First experimental results on a macrocylization have shown :
it works !
in the two configurations suggested
yields = yields of batch reactions run at same high dilution
clear environmental benefit (PMI reduction)
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Catalyst recycle: Background
•Work carried out in connection with a project concerning new functionalized ceramic membranes
•Looking at metathesis catalyst recycle via ceramic membranes.
•Several groups have looked at metathesis catalyst recyle but only with polymeric membranes.
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4. van der Gryp, P.; Barnard, A.; Cronje, J.-P.; de Vlieger, D.; Marx, S.; Vosloo, H. C. M.
Journal of Membrane Science 2010, 353, 70-77.
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Catalyst recycle
COOEtEtOOCCOOEtEtOOC
Ru -cat
Molecular Formula = C13H20O4Formula Weight = 240.2955
Molecular Formula = C11H16O4Formula Weight = 212.24234
DEDAM
CH2Cl2
ClCl
Ru
O
P
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Catalyst recycle
Membrane Solvent rejection
TiO2 0.9 nm CH2Cl2 > 99%
Duramem-200 CH2Cl2 > 99.5%
Pre-catalyst Catalyst
ClCl
Ru
O
P
ClCl
Ru
P
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Catalyst recycle
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Catalyst recycle
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Catalyst recycle
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Catalyst recycle
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Catalyst recycle
Membrane Catalyst rejection (%)
Total turn over number
Turnover number
single batch DM-200 33 - 37 112
97 TiO2 77 - 82 235
HG-I reaction turnover number batchwise reaction – filter – fill system
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Catalyst recycle
COOEtEtOOCCOOEtEtOOC
Ru -cat
Molecular Formula = C13H20O4Formula Weight = 240.2955
Molecular Formula = C11H16O4Formula Weight = 212.24234
DEDAM
CH2Cl2+
van der Eide, E. F.; Piers, W. E. Nature chemistry 2010, 2, 571–6. Demonstrated that ring closure is kinetically slightly favoured over ring opening and driven by loss of ethene.
But under pressure in a continuous system ethene can only be lost on permeation through the membrane
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Catalyst recycle
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Catalyst recycle
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Grela, K. et al., Chemistry , 2008, 14, 806–18. Stated that increasing the temperature has more effect than increasing the catalyst loading
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Catalyst recycle
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Catalyst recycle
Membrane Time (hrs) Solvent
DCM Tol (50°C)
TiO2 6 110 124
16 177
HG-I turnover number in continuous mode
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Catalyst recycle : Conclusions
Several questions remain unanswered research in early phase Both batchwise & continuous mode give an increase in turnover number over “classic” reaction procedure Under continuous mode the membrane plays an active role in the reaction