Monday, 5 June 2006: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Cocoa 2 (Hershey Lodge and Convention Center)
Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (INOR)
Frontiers in Microwave Assisted Catalysis
The use of microwave radiation to heat chemical reactions has become a powerful synthetic technique. In many cases reaction times can be reduced from days to hours or minutes. These presentations will outline a number of successful applications of this technology to metal catalyzed carbon-oxygen, carbon-phosphorus, and carbon-nitrogen bond forming reactions as well as classic organic transformations. The results of changes in key reaction parameters such as the temperature, pressure, catalyst loading, solvent choice, and microwave power will be presented.
Organizer:Robert Stockland
Presider:Robert Stockland
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:35 PMMicrowave chemistry: a vision of the future
Grace S. Vanier
2:05 PMA microwave-assisted intramolecular [2 + 2] allenic cycloaddition reaction for the rapid assembly of bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1,6-dienes and bicyclo[5.2.0]nona-1,7-dienes
Kay M. Brummond, Daitao Chen
2:35 PMClean, fast microwave-assisted organic chemistry for the undergraduate laboratory
Cynthia B. McGowan, Nicholas Leadbeater
3:05 PMBreak
3:20 PMMicrowave assisted carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions
Robert Stockland
3:50 PMNew avenues for microwave promoted chemistry
Nicholas Leadbeater

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