Microwave-Assisted Heterocyclic Chemistry for Undergraduate Organic Laboratory

Robert Musiol , Bozena Tyman-Szram and Jaroslaw Polanski
Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice 40-007, Poland
J. Chem. Educ., 2006, 83 (4), p 632
DOI: 10.1021/ed083p632
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2006

Abstract

Heterocyclic chemistry forms an interesting and important part of organic chemistry. Microwave-assisted techniques were applied to design new environmentally benign syntheses of heterocycles for the undergraduate organic laboratory. To avoid toxic solvents, solid-phase synthesis and neat methods were applied. New procedures for the synthesis of seven unique heterocyclic compounds are simple, low cost, safe, and time sparing.

Keywords (Audience):

First-Year Undergraduate / General

Keywords (Domain):

Laboratory Instruction

Keywords (Feature):

Green Chemistry

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives

Keywords (Subject):

Green Chemistry

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