Method for carrying out chemical reactions with the aid of an inductively heated heating medium

A process for producing a target compound by a chemical reaction, the chemical reaction thermally induced by electromagnetic induction, the process comprising:

• (i) providing a liquid reaction medium comprising a plurality of different carbon-containing reactant molecules;
• (ii) disposing a heating medium comprising particles of electrically conductive and/or magnetizable solids into the reaction medium, such that the heating medium is in contact with and surrounded by the reaction medium, wherein the heating medium particles include particles having a magnetizable core surrounded by a non-magnetic Si containing shell having a moiety selected from -phenyl-CH2—NMe3Cl, -phenyl-CH2—Cl, -phenyl-CH2—NMe3PdCl, —(CH2)2—NH3Cl, —(CH2)2—NH2, —(CH2)3—NH3PdCl3, —(CH2)3—NH3Cl, and combinations thereof bonded thereto;
• (iii) subjecting the heating medium to an alternating field with a frequency in the range of 1 to 100 kHz to cause the heating medium to heat by electromagnetic induction;
• thereby heating the reaction medium by contact with the heating medium and causing the reactant molecules to react via a reaction selected from oxidation reaction, reduction reaction, fragmentation reaction, addition reaction, cycloaddition reaction, Diels-Alder reaction, substitution reaction, aromatic substitution reaction, elimination reaction, rearrangement reaction, cross coupling reaction, metathetical reaction, reaction forming a heterocycle, reaction forming an ether, reaction forming an ester, transesterification reaction, reaction forming an amine, reaction forming an amide, reaction forming an urethane, pericyclic reaction, Michael addition reaction, condensation reaction, polymerization reaction and polymer grafting reaction, and form chemical bonds between carbon atoms of different reactant molecules creating the target compound wherein there is no chemical bond formed between the reactant molecules and the heating medium particles;
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• (iv) separating the target compound from the reaction medium and the heating medium particles.