Subject microwave assisted

Today, 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... 

For the solution-phase preparation of functionalized tropanylidenes, the authors simply dispensed solutions of the bromo N-H precursor in 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) into a set of microwave vials, added the aldehydes (3 equivalents) and a solution of sodium triacetoxy borohydride in dimethylformamide (2 equivalents), and subjected the mixtures to microwave irradiation for 6 min at 120 °C. Quenching the reductive amination with water and subsequent concentration allowed a microwave-assisted Suzuki reaction (Section 6.1.2) to be performed directly on the crude products [295]. 

The group of Botta demonstrated the feasibility of their microwave-assisted iodi-nation protocol (see Scheme 6.143 d) toward a polymer-supported substrate [68], An appropriate pyrimidinone attached to conventional Merrifield polystyrene resin was suspended in N,N-dimethylformamide, treated with 2 equivalents of N-iodosuccini-mide (NIS), and subjected to microwave irradiation for 3 min. Treatment of the polymer-bound intermediate with OXONE released the desired 5-iodouracil in almost quantitative yield (Scheme 7.57). 

A method for microwave-assisted transesterifications has been described by Van-den Eynde and Rutot [73], The authors investigated the microwave-mediated deriva-tization of poly(styrene-co-allyl alcohol) as a key step in the polymer-assisted synthesis of heterocycles. Several /i-ketoesters were employed in this procedure and multigram quantities of products were obtained when neat mixtures of the reagents in open vessels were subjected to microwave irradiation utilizing a domestic micro-wave oven (Scheme 7.65). The successful derivatization of the polymer was confirmed by IR, 1H NMR, and 13C NMR spectroscopic analyses. The soluble supports... 

Parallel to these developments in combinatorial chemistry, microwave-enhanced organic synthesis has attracted a substantial amount of attention in recent years. As evidenced from the other chapters in this book and the large number of review articles available on this subject [7-14], high-speed microwave-assisted synthesis has... 

On the other hand, USAL is subject to the following shortcomings relative to microwave-assisted leaching ... 

A procedure was developed for the determination of total and labile Cu and Fe in river surface water. It involved simultaneous solvent extraction of the metals as diethyldithio-carbamates (ddc) and tfac complexes. The complexes were extracted by isobutyl methyl ketone (ibmk) and the solution subjected to flame atomic absorption spectrometry. Variables such as pH, metal complex concentration, reaction time, ibmk volume and extraction time were optimized. Prior to the solvent extraction a microwave-assisted peroxydisulfate oxidation was used to break down the metallorganic matter complexes in the river surface waters . Trifluoroacetylacetone was used as a chelation agent for the extraction and quantitative determination of total Cr in sea water. The chelation reaction was conducted in a single aqueous phase medium. Both headspace and liquid phase extractions were studied and various detection techniques, such as capillary GC-ECD, EI-MS (electron-impact MS) and ICP-MS, were tested and compared. The LOD was 11-15 ngL Cr for all the systems examined. The method provided accurate results with EI-MS and ICP-MS, while significant bias was experienced with ECD °. ... 

Scanning electron micrographs taken from control (non-treated) and leaves that were previously treated by the extraction processes mentioned above revealed significant differences between the microwave-assisted extracted leaves and all other mint leaves which had been extracted by means. This was true for dry, fresh, and re-hydrated leaves. In fact, it was clear that the process by which the extraction occurs when using microwaves was fundamentally different from any other extraction processes investigated at the time. Actually, to the best of our knowledge, this assertion still holds true. In summary, the conclusions drawn from the micrographs taken from mint leaves that were subjected to extraction in hexane were as follows [1-6] ... 

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