Microwave isolator

An important application for garnets is for isolators in optical communications systems. Reflections from end-faces of components and interconnections in an optical transmission line have a destabilizing effect on the operation of the laser sources and have to be eliminated. This is achieved using an optical isolator , the optical analogue (2 typically in the range 1.30—1.55 /mi) of the microwave isolator described in Section 9.5.5. 

Waveguides are coimnonly used to transmit microwaves from the source to the resonator and subsequently to the receiver. For not-too-high-frequency radiation (<10 GHz) low-loss MW transmission can also be achieved usmg strip-lines and coaxial cables. At the output of a klystron an isolator is often used to prevent back-reflected microwaves to perturb the on-resonant klystron mode. An isolator is a microwave-ferrite device that pemiits the transmission of microwaves in one direction and strongly attenuates their propagation in the other direction. The prmciple of this device involves the Faraday effect, that is, the rotation of the polarization... 

Microwave Ferrites. Microwave devices employing ferrites make use of the nonreciprocal propagation characteristics that are close to or at a gyromagnetic-resonance frequency at ca 1—100 GHz. The most important devices are isolators and circulators (see Microwave technology). 

Some power tubes can be operated without the need for a protective ferrite isolator. One example is the cooker magnetron (700 W) used in modern microwave ovens (57). At higher power levels, such as 25 kW, it is more common to employ a protective ferrite device, particularly in the form of a circulator (58), as shown in Figure 3. This results in a power loss equivalent to a few percentage points in system efficiency. The ferrite circulator prevents reflected power from returning to the power tube and instead directs it into an auxiHary dummy load. The pulling of tube frequency is thus minimised. 

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MICROWAVE-ASSISTED SOLVENT EXTRACTION AND A NEW METHOD FOR ISOLATION OF TOTAL PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS (TPH) FROM PLANTS WITH COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY (SILICA GEL AND ALUMINA) AND DETERMINATION WITH SPECTROFLUOROPHOTOMETRY... 

Microwave extraction realized at 120 °C for 30 min with Hexane -Acetone (3 2 V/V) as the extraction solvent was identified as the most effective extraction procedure for isolation of TPH from biotic matrices. The aim of this research is to develop a silica gel and alumina fractionation procedure for plant sample extraction. Column chromatography with two solvents (chloroform and hexane dichloromethane) as a mobile phase were used for clean-up of extract. In this research the efficiency of recovery received from chloroform as a mobile phase. 

Sulfur bromides are but poorly characterized and there are few reliable data on them. SBr2 probably does not exist at room temperature but has been claimed as a matrix-isolated product when a mixture of S2Cl2/SCl2 Br2 Ar in the ratio 1 1 150 is passed through an 80-W microwave discharge and the product condensed on a Csl... 

A classical setup for microwave conductivity measurements is based on the utilization of the waveguides. A simple installation consists of a microwave generator (typically a gun diode) which, when the Ka-band is used, can be operated in the frequency region of 28-40 Gc/s this is protected by an isolator against back-reflections from the rest of the microwave circuit. The microwave power is conducted by an attenuator across a circulator into the microwave conductor branch at the end of which the electrochemical cell is mounted. The microwave power reflected from the electrochemical sample is conducted via the circulator into the microwave detector. It typically consists of a diode that acts as an antenna, receiving the electrical alternating field, rectifying it, and con-... 

During the past decade, MALDI-TOF MS has proven to be an effective tool for the analysis of oligo- and polymeric mannoglucans (for extensive reviews see [222,223]). SEC/MALDI mass spectrometry was employed in the analysis of hemicelluloses isolated by microwave heat-fractionation from spruce and aspen wood [94]. These methods allowed the separation and characterization of the oligo- and polysaccharide fractions derived from the xylan and mannan components of both woods [224]. 

The Suzuki reaction has been successfully used to introduce new C - C bonds into 2-pyridones [75,83,84]. The use of microwave irradiation in transition-metal-catalyzed transformations is reported to decrease reaction times [52]. Still, there is, to our knowledge, only one example where a microwave-assisted Suzuki reaction has been performed on a quinolin-2(lH)-one or any other 2-pyridone containing heterocycle. Glasnov et al. described a Suzuki reaction of 4-chloro-quinolin-2(lff)-one with phenylboronic acid in presence of a palladium-catalyst under microwave irradiation (Scheme 13) [53]. After screening different conditions to improve the conversion and isolated yield of the desired aryl substituted quinolin-2( lff)-one 47, they found that a combination of palladium acetate and triphenylphosphine as catalyst (0.5 mol %), a 3 1 mixture of 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) and water as solvent, triethyl-amine as base, and irradiation for 30 min at 150 °C gave the best result. Crucial for the reaction was the temperature and the amount of water in the... 

The use of microwave irradiation for decarboxylation reactions is well appreciated [107-110]. Still, only one example of a decarboxylation performed on 2-pyridone starting materials has been reported (Fig. 10) [111]. Notably, this decarboxylation reaction is a selective and reagent-free method performed in N-methyl-2-pyrrohdin one (NMP) and microwave irradiation at 220 °C for 10 min. The products 65 were isolated in excellent yields (92-99%) by a simple aqueous work-up (Fig. 10). 

The synthesis of 4-unsubstituted DHPs in a focused microwave reactor has been reported using alkyl acetoacetates and hexamethylenetetramine 19 as the source of both formaldehyde and ammonia, with additional ammonium acetate to maintain the stoichiometry [57], Irradiation for 100 s under solvent-free conditions gave, for example, 1,4-DHP 20 in 63% isolated yield (Scheme 5). 

A one-pot synthesis of thiohydantoins has been developed using microwave heating [72]. A small subset of p-substituted benzaldehydes, prepared in situ from p-bromobenzaldehyde by microwave-assisted Suzuki or Negishi reactions, was reacted in one pot by reductive amination followed by cyclization with a thioisocyanate catalyzed by polystyrene-bound dimethyl-aminopyridine (PS-DMAP) or triethylamine, all carried out under microwave irradiation, to give the thiohydantoin products in up to 68% isolated yield (Scheme 16). 

When a blank reaction was run by purging the solution of pyrazinone (Scheme 22, pyrazinone b) in o-DCB with ethylene gas and irradiating it at 190 °C for 100 min, only a mere 53% conversion of the starting material was observed. Microwave-enhanced hydrolysis of the sensitive imidoyl chloride moiety of the cycloadduct using aqueous NaOH resulted in a yield of only 12%. However, the situation changed dramatically when the vial was pre-pressurized with ethylene gas at 5 bar. The reaction was completed after 30 min of microwave irradiation at 190 °C, and the hydrolyzed product was isolated in 87% yield. The reaction could be completed in a mere 10 min when carried out at 220 °C at an increased ethylene pressure of 10 bar, or in 20 min at 190 °C at 10 bar ethylene pressure. 

Based on the properties of ionic hquids in high-temperature microwave-enhanced reactions, the authors chose l-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetraflu-orophosphate ([bmimjPFe) as the suitable ionic liquid (Scheme 23). The addition of 0.15 mmol of [bmimjPFe to a reaction in 2.0 mL of DCF was found to increase the reaction rate dramatically and a set-temperature of 190 °C was reached in a mere 1 min, while the reactions programmed at 190 °C, in the absence of the ionic liquid, reached only 170 °C in 10 min. The reactions were finished in a mere 18-25 min of irradiation time, including the hydrolysis of the sensitive imidoyl chloride moiety with water. The formed bis-lactams were isolated in good yield and purity. 

The authors have also elaborated a microwave-enhanced one-pot procedure [90] for the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. In a typical procedure, a pyrazinone with a triple bond connected to the core via C - O linkage, was reacted with a suitable benzylic bromide and NaNs in presence of the Cu(I) catalyst in a t Bu0H/H20 system under microwave irradiation (Scheme 26). The cycloaddition was found to proceed cleanly and with full regioselectivity. As the azide is generated in situ, this procedure avoids the isolation and purification of hazardous azides, which is especially important when handling the ahphatic ones, which are known to be toxic and explosive in nature. 

These triazolo-pyrazinones were reacted with DMAD under microwave irradiation (Scheme 32). The reactions were carried out in o-DCB at a slightly elevated temperature of 200 °C for 15 min. Interestingly, the opposite selectivity to the C-C linked analogues was observed during the Diels-Alder reactions of C - N linked pyrazinone-triazoles with DMAD, as pyridines were found to prevail over the corresponding pyridinones. These compounds were isolated in combined yields of 39-68%. 

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