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Sci Finder scholar search, keyword microwave not spectroscopy ). The black graphs represent the number of publications (2001—2004) reporting MAOS experiments in dedicated reactors with adequate process control (ca. 50 journals, full text search microwave). 

a large body of work on microwave-assisted synthesis exists in the published and patent literature. Many review articles [8-20], several books [21-23], and information on the world-wide-web [24] already provide extensive coverage of the subject. The goal of the present book is to present carefully scrutinized, useful, and practical information for both beginners and advanced practitioners of microwave-assisted organic synthesis. Special emphasis is placed on concepts and chemical transformations that are of importance to medicinal chemists, and that have been reported in the most recent literature (2002-2004). The extensive literature survey is limited to reactions that have been performed using controlled microwave heating conditions, i.e., where dedicated microwave reactors for synthetic applications with adequate 

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