Maghar S. Manhas

TL;DR: Grindstone Chemistry as mentioned in this paper is a greatly evolved version of Toda's method of grinding solids together for solvent-free chemical reactions and its usefulness is illustrated by the successful application of this technique to a simplified process for conducting the multi-component Biginelli reaction for the synthesis of physiologically active tetrahydropyrimidinones.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used microwave irradiation in open vessels using high-boiling solvents such as ethylene glycol (bp 198 °C) as the microwave energy transfer agent to reduce double bonds and hydrogenolysis of several functional groups.

TL;DR: Microwave-assisted rapid organic reactions constitute an emerging technology that could make industrially important organic syntheses more eco-friendly than conventional reactions as mentioned in this paper, and are potentially valuable as they reduce the need for organic solvents and also increase the atom economy by improving product selectivity and chemical yield.

TL;DR: Nontraditional techniques using domestic microwave ovens have been developed for conducting a wide variety of organic reactions that fast, safe, inexpensive, and friendly to the environment as mentioned in this paper.