“…Over the past two decades, continuous processing has been employed with increasing frequency within the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries for synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and natural products. − The process advantages inherent to flow chemistry include improved mass transfer and efficient heat transfer, facilitated by use of high surface-area-to-volume ratios of tubular reactors, safer access to extreme temperature and pressure conditions, enhanced reproducibility, inline workups, and automated operation. − Use of flow chemistry has been shown to enable additional possibilities for introducing process control via feedback loops, where suitable inline or online spectroscopic analysis allows the product profile of the reactor output to be managed in real time . Ease of scale-up is a further positive attribute of continuous processing; while traditional scale-up, with its associated challenges, is required for batch processes, additional, alternative options to achieve increased production are available through flow chemistry, whereby the process can either be run for longer (scale-out) or whereby multireactors can be run in parallel (numbering up). ,, …”