9 th Green Chemistry Conference. AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT Alcalá de Henares - Spain, 2011 From the Solar Production of Chemicals to Microphotochemical Synthesis Michael Oelgemöller 1 , Tiffany Ramahefarison 1 , Alexander Esser 1 , Jessica Desport 1 , Emma E. Coyle 2 , Oksana Shvydkiv 2 , Alexander Yavorskyy 2 and Kieran Nolan 2 1 School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia – michael.oelgemoeller@jcu.edu.au 2 School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland Keywords: photochemistry, solar chemistry, microreactor.                                                 !       "   # $               %                                &            " #           ’ (             )   *  "   #+          ,       -           .       */ + 0)           *1),2+  .        Fig. 1 – PROPHIS (back) and CPC (front) reactors at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Cologne, Germany. ( - . * &  +     3  */ +  .           04 (        155 6   &         -          . $                 2b (55%) 2a (45%) + OH OH OH OH HO 2. Na 2 SO 3 citronellol (1) 1. sun, i-PrOH, O 2 Rose Bengal Fig. 2 – Photooxygenation of citronellol (1). /      7879:&   - 8 ;            055      (             -  <   % ’’       %     (                    =              