Patent ID: 6902934
Filing Date: 2005-06-07
Classification: B01F,B01J,B01L,C01B,C07C,C40B,G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for effecting chemical reactions of interest in a parallel processing microsystem, the method comprising simultaneously loading at least four catalyst materials into four or more microreactors such that the materials are individually resident in a reaction cavity of a separate microreactor, each of the at least four materials comprising an inorganic material, a metal-ligand or a non-biological organic material, each of the four or more microreactors comprising a surface defining a reaction cavity having a volume of not more than about 3 ml for carrying out a chemical reaction, an inlet port in fluid communication with the reaction cavity for supplying one or more reactants to the reaction cavity, and an outlet port in fluid communication with the reaction cavity for discharging a reactor effluent from the reaction cavity, each of the four or more reactors being formed in a plurality of laminae, wherein the at least four catalyst materials are loaded into the four or more microreactors as a material-containing laminate comprising a substrate and the at least four catalyst materials at separate portions of the substrate, simultaneously supplying one or more reactants to each of the four or more microreactors, simultaneously contacting each of the at least four candidate catalyst materials with the one or more reactants in the four or more microreactors under reaction conditions for the reaction of interest, simultaneously discharging a reactor effluent from each of the four or more material-containing microreactors, and simultaneously unloading the catalyst-contacted materials from the microreactors in which they reside after the chemical reaction of interest by unloading the material-containing laminate.