Solvents for more environmentally-friendly chemistry
Solvants verts

Back in 2005, R. A. Sheldon declared that "The best solvent is no solvent", and that if a solvent was essential, water was particularly appropriate. But is this really the case?

The physico-chemical properties of water are particularly attractive and have already been widely exploited [K1210] . On the other hand, water remains relatively little used as a reaction medium for the transformation of organic molecules...