While microwave enhancement of chemical syntheses has been demonstrated for a broad variety of chemical reactions, there is no accepted universal mechanism. Is the enhancement due to more efficient heating, to overheating, to nonuniform heating, or to nonthermal effects? Analyses are complicated due to the often significant spatial and temporal temperature variations in microwave reactor system...

We have previously developed water-based microwave (MW)-assisted peptide synthesis using Fmoc-amino acid nanopaticles. It is an organic solvent-free, environmentally friendly method for peptide synthesis. Here we describe water-based MW-assisted solid-phase synthesis using Boc-amino acid nanoparticles. The microwave irradiation allowed rapid solid-phase reaction of nanoparticle reactants on the...

In recent years, microwave irradiation using commercial domestic ovens for the optimization and acceleration of organic reactions has rapidly increased1−2.It has been reported that a variety of reactions such as Dielsalder , ene, Claisen reactions , Fischer cyclization, synthesis of heterocycles , hydrolysis of esters , hydrogenation, deprotection of benzyl ester, deacetylation of diacetates, o...

An efficient and rapid method for the synthesis of 3,4,5-substituted furan-2 (5H)-ones has been achieved through a three-component reaction of aniline, dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylate, and aromatic aldehydes using nano-colloidal silica-tethered polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes with eight branches of 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (nano-colloidal silica @APTPOSS) as a superior catalyst under m...

A continuous flow reactor equipped with a low-loss flow channel and a microwave cavity was developed for synthesizing nanophosphors. A continuous solution synthesis of YVO4:Eu,Bi nanophosphor was succeeded through the rapid hydrothermal method using this equipment. Internal quantum efficiency of YVO4:Eu,Bi nanophosphor obtained by 20 minutes microwave heating is about 30% at 320 nm as high as t...

Glycerol mono-oleate (GMO) was produced by direct esterification reaction with amberlyst 16 resin catalysts with the efficiency of 86% and was used as a surfactant for synthesis of CoFe2O4 nano-particles by surfactant-assisted microwave method. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to consider the structural and...