Microwave Chemistry has changed the way to work in chemical laboratories and is an established state-of-the-art technology to accelarate and enhance chemical processes. This book not only gives an overview of the technology, its historical development and theoretical background, but also presents its exceptionally broad spectrum of applications. Microwave Chemistry enables graduate students and scientist to learn and apply its methods successfully.

Contributions by: Pedro Cintas, Paolo Veronesi, Cristina Leonelli, György Keglevich, Zoltán Mucsi, Marilena Radoiu, Antonio de la Hoz, Pilar Prieto, Yuji Wada, Dai Mochizuki, Taishi Ano, Masato M. Maitani, Shuntaro Tsubaki, Naoto Haneishi, Satoshi Horikoshi, Nick Serpone, Frédéric Delbecq, Rafael Luque, Christophe Len, Angél Díaz-Ortiz, Abhishek Sharma, Erick van der Eycken, Jacek Wojnarowicz, Tadeusz Chudoba, Andrzej Majcher, Witold Łojkowski, Rodrigo González-Prieto, Santiago Herrero, Reyes Jiménez-Aparicio, Emilio Morán, Jésus Prado-Gonjal, José Luis Priego-Bermejo, Rainer Schmidt, Dariusz Bogdal, Sandrine Perino, Emmanuel Petitcolas, Farid Chemat, Cláudia Passos, Manuel Coimbra, Simona Collina, Serena Della Volpe, Karin Engen, Jonas Sävmarker, Luke Odell, Mats Larhed, Silvia Tabasso, Zhilin Wu, María del Mar Delgado Povedano, María D. Luque de Castro, Cezar Augusto Bizzi, Érico M. M. Flores, Márcia Foster Mesko, Juliano S. Barin, Fabio A. Duarte, Paola de Azevedo Mello, Éder L. de Moraes Flores, Richard Morrison