Help your students learn the hi-tech methods and more complex chemistries that they will be using after graduation, including multi-step and multi-component reactions that you currently cannot teach due to time restrictions! Clean, Fast Organic Chemistry contains 11 experiments designed to guide students through the process of conducting organic reactions under faster, safer microwave conditions.

“Our motivation for writing this laboratory manual has come from a desire to introduce the chemists of tomorrow to the technology of tomorrow. By integrating microwave-promoted chemistry into undergraduate laboratory courses, it is possible not only to train students in using a new technique, but also to widen the scope of the reactions that they can perform.”

Microwave energy is fast becoming the method of choice for both industrial and academic chemists for driving reactions to completion, as it offers the safest, most effective way to increase reaction rates and improve product yields, while promoting green chemistry. Reactions typically covered in academic organic laboratories require lengthy reflux times and leave little time for characterization, purification or repetition. McGowan and Leadbeater have taken many of these experiments and converted them to microwave heating methods. Reactions that previously took hours, or even days, to complete can now be performed in minutes.

Decreasing reaction times allows students time to design, optimize, characterize and analyze reaction processes and products. Additionally, microwave-assisted reactions are frequently green chemistry methods, as they are often run neat or in aqueous solutions minimizing the need for organic solvents and simplifying the work-up process. For example, nucleophilic aromatic substitutions, typically requiring 60-90 minutes reflux in toluene, are complete in less than 10 minutes in aqueous solution with microwave heating, a safer, more environmentally-friendly method that leaves you more time to teach.

It’s time to think about the environment and our impact on it. Microwave energy is an inherently efficient way to transfer energy to a reaction, as it transfers kinetically rather than thermally. Because of this quality, it is the ideal energy source for driving reactions. Students can use water or ethanol as the solvent in most reactions. Neat reactions and the high conversions seen in numerous chemistries help eliminate waste.

• Use water or ethanol as solvents
• Neat reactions and high conversions help eliminate waste
• Non-hazardous reagents help students design less hazardous syntheses
• Use catalysts, not stoichiometric reagents

Not only is microwave-assisted chemistry good for the environment, it is also safer for chemists. Microwave synthesis systems designed for the laboratory offer an unmatched level of safety.

• Eliminate hot plate burns
• Reactions return to room temperature before removing from microwave
• Reactions are completely contained

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