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Last year, Prof. Timothy Noël, Daniele Mazzarella and Stefan Zondag of the University of Amsterdam were invited to write a chapter for Volume 14 of the Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The given topic was photochemistry scale-up, and their published chapter is titled "Scale-Up of Photochemical Reactions: Transitioning from Lab Scale to Industrial Production." The literature review is now available online, as of March 13th, 2023, ahead of publication: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-101121-074313. Its final publication will be in June.

Abstract: In the past two decades, we have witnessed a rapid emergence of new and powerful photochemical and photocatalytic synthetic methods. Although these methods have been used mostly on a small scale, there is a growing need for efficient scale-up of photochemistry in the chemical industry. This review summarizes and contextualizes the advancements made in the past decade regarding the scale-up of photo-mediated synthetic transformations. Simple scale-up concepts and important fundamental photochemical laws have been provided along with a discussion concerning suitable reactor designs that should facilitate scale-up of this challenging class of organic reactions.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-101121-074313