Microwave-assisted organic synthesis process research

Parallel to these developments in solid-phase synthesis and combinatorial chemistry, microwave-enhanced organic synthesis has attracted much attention in recent years. As is evident from the other chapters in this book and the comprehensive reviews available on this subject [5, 6], high-speed microwave-assisted synthesis has been applied successfully in many fields of synthetic organic chemistry. Any technique which can speed the process of rather time-consuming solid-phase synthesis is of substantial interest, particularly in research laboratories involved in high-throughput synthesis. 

---