This book provides in a concise form the principles and applications of flow microreactors in
organic and polymer synthesis. Recently it became possible to conduct chemical reactions in a
flow reactor in laboratory synthesis. The flow microreactor enables reactions that cannot be
done in batch opening a new possibility of chemical synthesis. Extremely fast mass and heat
transfer and high-resolution residence time control are responsible for the remarkable features
of that process. The book is not an exhaustive compilation of all known examples of flow
microreactor synthesis. Rather it is a sampling of sufficient variety to illustrate the
concept the scope and the current state of flow microreactor synthesis. Researchers both in
academia and in industry will be interested in this book because the topics encompassed by the
book are vigorously studied in many university and company laboratories today.
