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MICROWAVE ACCELERATED SOLVENT-FREE CHEMICAL REACTIONS, PUBLISHED IN AMPERE NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 29, JUNE 2001
Citation:
Varma*, R S. MICROWAVE ACCELERATED SOLVENT-FREE CHEMICAL REACTIONS, PUBLISHED IN AMPERE NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 29, JUNE 2001. Association for Microwave Power in Europe for Research and Education (AMPERE), Cambridge, Uk, (29), EPA/600/A-01/065, 2001.
Description:
The worldwide annual usage of volatile organic solvents is generally of the order of ~4 billion pounds. In the environmentally conscieous era, the focus in to design chemical processes and products that eliminate or minimize the waste generation and the ideal approach may comprise pollution prevention "at source" rather than replacing end-of-the-pipe control technology. Importantly, the new generation of chemists should be introduced to chemical cirriculum wherein such concepts can be incorporated at early stages of education thus evolving "green" chemistry. One such solvent conserving strategy uses microwaves, which in contrast to the conventional heating methods, can proceed under solvent-free conditions using neat reactants (undiluted) either in presence of a catalyst or catalyzed by the surfaces of inexpensive and recyclable mineral supports.