Green chemistry concept: Applications of catalysis in pharmacuetical industry

The first time a catalyst was used in the industry was in 1746 by J. Roebuck [1] in the manufacture of lead chamber sulfuric acid. In general catalysts is a chemical substance which increases the speed of the reaction. And many reactions without catalysts do not take place. Hence, is the utmost important to speed up the reactions in less frame of time. Since then catalysts are used in a large portion of the chemical industry. In the start only pure components were used as catalysts, but after the year 1900 multicomponent catalysts were studied and are now commonly used in the industry [1,2].