Multimode microwave ovens

With a similar approach, Dave and Shah have developed a simple, fast, solvent-free and high-yielding, variant of the Gould-Jacob type synthesis of thieno[3,2-e]pyrimido[l,2-c]pyrimidines. In this example the conventional condensation between 4-aminothieno-2,3-dyrimidines and diethyl ethoxymethylenemalonate via acyclic intermediates (usually performed in 5-6 h) was compared with a solvent-free single-step microwave procedure (7-10 min) applying a multimode microwave oven (BPL 700T, Mumbai, India) [7], Scheme 6. 

Following a similar strategy, trifluoro acetyl ketene diethyl acetal was successively condensed with 2-aminothiophenol in the presence of toluene in a multimode microwave oven (8 min at 980 W) to give the 2-(l,l,l-trifluoro-acetonyl)benzothiazole ring in an excellent yield (93%) [14] (Scheme 13). hi this work, the temperature reached during reaction was not controlled reducing the reproducibility of the process. 

Since the early applications of microwave-assisted synthesis were based on the use of domestic multimode microwave ovens, the primary focus in the development of dedicated microwave instruments was inevitably the improvement of multimode... 

Other microwave-assisted parallel processes, for example those involving solid-phase organic synthesis, are discussed in Section 7.1. In the majority of the cases described so far, domestic multimode microwave ovens were used as heating devices, without utilizing specialized reactor equipment. Since reactions in household multimode ovens are notoriously difficult to reproduce due to the lack of temperature and pressure control, pulsed irradiation, uneven electromagnetic field distribution, and the unpredictable formation of hotspots (Section 3.2), in most contemporary published methods dedicated commercially available multimode reactor systems for parallel processing are used. These multivessel rotor systems are described in detail in Section 3.4. 

The authors showed that it was possible to perform this reaction in a multimode microwave oven [19] in a few minutes on a large scale in water containing a slight excess of potassium hydroxide but without cosolvent. Under the action of classical heating the major problem with these syntheses is the instability of the thiophene o-amino acids, which readily decarboxylate at room temperature to give aminothio-phenes which are themselves unstable [20 a] and have to be used as soon as they are prepared. With large quantities of reactants, moreover, the hydrolysis step is not easy to perform because of the low reactivity of thiophene carboxylates 39 and 42 [20 b]. 

In the search for the most suitable selective heating method for polymer-polymer composites, the susceptor efficiency in different polymeric matrix systems has been recently investigated by the use of a multimode microwave oven technology. 

A special microwave working electrode was constructed from a 150 mm diameter tungsten rod coated with a boron-doped diamond film. For microwave activation experiments, a modified multimode microwave oven with modified power supply, a water energy sink, and a special port [49-54] for the electrochemical cell were used. 

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