An overview of recent advances, mainly focusing on the past 5–6 years, in microwave-
assisted heterogeneous catalysis is provided. The work includes three major parts;(i) a …

Abstract This Personal Account describes the author's involvement in the field of microwave‐
assisted organic synthesis (MAOS) from the late 1990's starting out with kitchen microwave …

The popularity of dedicated microwave reactors in many academic and industrial
laboratories has produced a plethora of synthetic protocols that are based on this enabling …

Developing manufacturing processes for active pharmaceutical ingredients and
intermediates often involves complex chemistry. All companies now aim to uphold the …

Microwave heating in chemical reactions was first reported in 1986. There have since been
many reports employing microwave heating in organic chemistry, where microwave heating …

Indole derivatives are among the most useful and interesting heterocycles employed in drug
discovery and medicinal chemistry. In addition, flow chemistry and flow technology are …

We present a flow type single-mode microwave (MW) reactor that forms a uniform
electromagnetic field along a tubular reactor (quartz glass, id 1.5 mm× 100 mm) located in …

A newly designed robust and safe laboratory scale reactor for syntheses under sealed-
vessel conditions at 250° C maximum temperature and 20 bar maximum pressure is …

The discovery that the Newman–Kwart rearrangement can be performed at room
temperature by action of a simple and readily available oxidant, cerium ammonium nitrate, is …

Microwave-assisted organic synthesis has many advantages and is widely applied to a
variety of reactions. We have developed a new single-mode microwave applicator, specific …