ABSTRACT
It can be seen throughout that the use of micro reaction technology offers many advantages to the synthetic chemist for the performance of organic reactions; however, the time saved at this stage can often be eroded by the need to collect suf cient material to enable conventional batch-type postreaction work-ups and puri cations to be performed prior to analysis and characterization. With this in mind, researchers have recently begun to investigate methods for the performance of these unit operations under continuous ow and as such, a brief overview into current techniques available to the researcher form the basis of this chapter. For detailed discussions on this subject see reviews by Aota et al. [1], Tia and Herr [2], and Hartman and Jensen [3].
