Reaction Chemistry and Engineering

The journal bridging the gap between chemistry and chemical engineering.

Open Access: Hybrid

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Reaction Chemistry and Engineering is an interdisciplinary journal reporting cutting-edge research focused on enhancing the understanding and efficiency of reactions. Reaction engineering leverages the interface where fundamental molecular chemistry meets chemical engineering and technology. Challenges in chemistry can be overcome by the application of new technologies, while engineers may find improved solutions for process development from the latest developments in reaction chemistry.

ISSN: 2058-9883

Journal Impact factor

3.1 (2024)

First decision time (all)

19.5 days

First decision time (peer reviewed)

33 days

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Scope

Reaction Chemistry and Engineering is a unique forum for researchers whose interests span the broad areas of chemical engineering and chemical sciences to come together in solving problems of importance to wider society.

All papers should be written to be approachable by readers across the engineering and chemical sciences. Papers that consider multiple scales, from the laboratory up to and including plant scale, are particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest

Key topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Reaction engineering approaches or technologies:

Reaction development and optimisation (including catalysis and catalyst design, mechanistic and kinetic studies, analysis and monitoring, mechanism and kinetics, screening, intensification and scale-up)
Synthesis technologies (including electrochemistry, photochemistry and mechanochemistry)
Reaction and process engineering (including continuous processes, reactor design, integrated reactors, microfluidics and new reactor concepts)
Flow chemistry (including organic, inorganic, enzymatic, analytical and process chemistry)
Digitalisation of chemistry and biochemistry (including analysis and monitoring, automation, visualisation, machine learning, algorithms, high-throughput discovery and cyber-physical systems)
Biochemical engineering (including biocatalysis, enzyme engineering, bioprocessing and chemical biology)
Materials synthesis and processing (including nanomaterials, nanoparticles, polymers, surfaces, interfaces and membranes)
Separations (including reactive extraction/distillation and membrane-based processes)

Biological, chemical, medical, environmental and energy applications:

Pharmaceutical and speciality chemical development (including target identification and screening, synthetic route development and process design, intensification and scale-up)
Sustainable chemistry (including platform chemicals from bioresources and waste, alternative solvents, circular economy and efficient processes)
Environment and climate (including clean water, carbon capture, reactive and membrane separations, solar fuels and pollution abatement)

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Meet the team

Editor-in-Chief

Dionisios Vlachos

Chair

University of Delaware

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Editorial board

Ian R. Baxendale

Associate editor

Durham University

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Richard A. Bourne

Associate editor

University of Leeds

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Raj Gounder

Associate editor

Purdue University

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Saif A. Khan

Associate editor

National University of Singapore

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Advisory board

Malcolm Berry

MB Chemistry Consulting Ltd

Claude de Bellefon

University of Lyon

Professor Donna Blackmond

Scripps Research

Wayne Blaylock

Dow Chemical Company

Editorial office

Maria Southall

Executive Editor

Kay Burrows

Deputy Editor

Emily Skinner

Editorial Manager

Molly Colgate

Assistant Editor

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Themed collections

Our themed collections highlight areas of research, bring together contributions from groups within our research community and encourage focused discussion and collaboration.

Communication

Selective transfer hydrogenation of furfural under continuous flow conditions promoted by the recoverable homogeneous Shvo's catalyst

Paper

Reactor intensification on glycerol-to-acrylic acid conversion: a modelling study

Communication

Photocatalytic evolution of nitrous oxide from nitric monoxide over Pt-loaded titanium dioxide under UV irradiation

Review article

State-of-the-art heterogeneous polymerization kinetic modelling processes and their applications

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