Microwaves in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry

Tailored to the needs of medicinal and natural products chemists, the second edition of this unique handbook brings the contents up to speed,<br> almost doubling the amount of chemical information with an additional volume.<br> As in the predecessor, a short introductory section covers the theoretical background and evaluates currently available instrumentation and<br> equipment. The main part of the book then goes on to systematically survey the complete range of published microwave-assisted synthesis<br> methods from their beginnings in the 1990s to mid-2011, drawing on data from more than 5,000 reports and publications. Throughout, the<br> focus is on those reactions, reagents and reaction conditions that work, and that are the most relevant for medicinal and natural products<br> chemistry. A much expanded section is devoted to combinatorial, highthroughput and flow chemistry methods.