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By coupling an ultrasonic probe with a microwave reactor and propagating the ultrasound waves into the reactor via decalin introduced into their double jacket design, Chemat et al. studied the esterification of acetic acid with propanol and the pyrolysis of urea to afford a mixture of cyanuric acid, ameline and amelide (Scheme 9.19)136. Improved results were claimed compared to those obtained under conventional and microwave heating. The MW-US technique was also used to study the esterification of stearic acid with butanol and for sample preparation in chemical analysis137,138. 

Metal-organic frameworks can be synthesized with a wide variety of metal cations and a large choice of functionalized organic linkers by use of various synthesis methods, such as solvothermal (hydrothermal), microwave heating, ultrasonic, mechanochemical, electrochemical synthesis, and the spray-drying. However, only the conventional solvothermal (hydrothermal) method is well studied for MOF synthesis. In a typical solvothermal synthesis, both organic and inorganic precursors are dissolved in solvent... 

However, further a possibility of the formation of several different reaction products in similar processes was reported [97-99]. With the help of microwave irradiation and ultrasonication, the problem of selectivity was also touched in these communications. It was found that three-component reaction of equimolar mixture of 5-amino-Al-arylpyrazole-4-carboxamides, aldehydes, and cyclic (3-diketones in DMF under conventional thermal heating or under microwave irradiation at 150°C yielded pyrazoloquinazolines 68. The treatment at room temperature under ultrasonication gave the same reaction products, although addition of catalytic amounts of hydrochloric acid changed direction and positional isomeric quinazolines 69 were only isolated in this case. 

Thus, reactions of a,(3-unsaturated ketones and their synthetic precursors with aminoazoles can occur in several directions and lead to different reaction products. The reaction direction and the structure of the compounds obtained depends on five factors—solvent and catalyst used, electronic nature of the substituents, the reaction activation type (conventional heating, microwave field, ultrasonic irradiation) and temperature. 

Process intensification can be considered to be the use of measures to increase the volume-specific rates of reaction, heat transfer, and mass transfer and thus to enable the chemical system or catalyst to realize its full potential (2). Catalysis itself is an example of process intensification in its broadest sense. The use of special reaction media, such as ionic liquids or supercritical fluids, high-density energy sources, such as microwaves or ultrasonics, the exploitation of centrifugal fields, the use of microstructured reactors with very high specific surface areas, and the periodic reactor operation all fall under this definition of process intensification, and the list given is by no means exhaustive. 

Novel sample preparation techniques include ultrasonic extractions that use high frequency acoustic waves to heat and break up samples (9), as well as microwave-assisted extractions (MAE) that use long wavelength radiation for faster and less energy intensive extractions of thermally sensitive analytes (JO-13). Other innovations treat samples with high pressure and high temperature solvents in the liquid or in the supercritical state. These adaptations reduce the overall solvent use and speed the extractions. These methods include accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) (14) and supercritical fluid extraction (SEE) (8). 

There are a number of types of equipment associated with high-energy transfer to the reactants including microreactors, microwave reactors, radio frequency heating, electric pulses, ultrasonication, and spinning disc reactors. Some of these are briefly discussed later. 

Schwan was one of the founders of biomedical engineering as a new discipline. Before World War II, in the laboratory of Rajewski at the Frankfurter Institut fiir Biophysik, he had started with some of the most important topics of the field on low-frequency blood and blood serum conductivity, counting of blood cells, selective heating and body tissue properties in the ultra-high-frequency range, electromagnetic hazards and safety standards for microwaves, tissue relaxation, and electrode polarization. He also worked with the acoustic and ultrasonic properties of tissue. In 1950, he revealed for the first time the frequency dependence of muscle... 

Other methods such as ultrasonic heating, microwaves, induction heating, or high frequency radiation and furnace heating are of no industrial importance or lead to inferior material properties [28,43-46]. The thermoplastic filament winding process is called in situ consolidation and is schematically shown in Figure 1.11. With such devices, it is possible to process tapes of different widths with winding speeds up to 30 m/min. However, better material properties are derived at speeds of between 6 and 12 m/min [30]. 

For decades, the accelerating effect of ultrasonic irradiation has been a useful reactivity paradigm most physical and chemical effects arise from cavitations without an alteration of the rotational or vibrational states of molecules. In contrast to classical chemistry, in sonochem-istry it is not necessary to go to higher temperatures in order to accelerate the chemical process. To drive the chemical transformations the released kinetic energy from the cavitational collapse is sufficient [177]. Such an effect was also observed in this esterification reaction, where at room temperature (Table 6.10, entry 5) both the reaction rate and the selectivity in the main product were enhanced in comparison to the values obtained at 80°C (Table 6.10, entry 4) the reaction rate increased 43 times when compared with thermal activation and around 6 times when compared with microwaves. Even more importantly the selectivity to DAG and TAG after 30 min was at almost the same level as that obtained by thermal heating at 100°C for 22 h. 

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