A microwave heating

Microwave or dielectric heating is an accepted new technique to run chemical conversions on a lab scale as an alternative heating principle. Microwave heating is believed to be more depending on the molecular properties and the reaction conditions than conventional heating. At first sight microwave-assisted chemistry looks very promising given the overwhelming number of publications during the last two decades. To predict its potential for industrial purposes, it is necessary to make a proper comparison between both heating techniques. The underlying theory, “Green Chemistry” and the microwave effect are relevant topics to be studied in detail in nowadays’ organic chemistry. According to literature microwaveassisted chemistry seems to perform well and sometimes it even works better than expected. Magic or hidden logic?