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Reply to the Correspondence on Microwave Effects in Organic Synthesis
Author(s) -
Kappe C. Oliver
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201304368
Subject(s) - superheating , alkylation , microwave heating , microwave , argument (complex analysis) , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , materials science , chemistry , catalysis , physics , quantum mechanics , biochemistry
Selective heating or superheating? The enhancement effects seen by Dudley and co‐workers in the microwave‐heated Friedel–Crafts alkylation (see graphic) are due to superheating of the bulk reaction mixture and not selective reactant heating. This argument forms the basis of this Correspondence.