The electromagnetic radiation from microwave irradiation has been widely employed as a heating source in various significant organic transformations over the past two decades. The method, without adding any solvent while tied to microwave treatment, is acompletely environmentally benign platform with conspicuous advancements and has resulted in copious advantages with regards to rate of reaction and yield of the products compared to the other classical techniques. Therefore, in this review, we have attempted to summarize some recently developed organic reactions based on microwave-radiated solvent-free protocols, which would be very efficient for academic and industrial use without affecting the principles of green chemistry.
A novel and efficient approach for a tandem oxidative synthesis of quinazolin-4(3H)-one from 2-aminobenzonitrile and benzyl alcohol has been unveiled via Cu2(CO3)(OH)2. Herein CuSO4.5H2O accompanied by egg shell powder is used for the easy preparation of Cu2(CO3)(OH)2. The reported method portrays a wide range of substrate scope with good to excellent yield and the given reaction proceed at room temperature within 12 h. Single crystal of one of the synthesized quinazolin-4(3H)-ones was analysed through single crystal X-ray diffraction (SC-XRD). Some of the compounds reported here are also known to possess various pharmaceutical activities. Eventually the newly prepared catalyst was applied for propargylamine synthesis via a multi component reaction. Perceiving all the advantages, present protocol is conceivably considered as clean, cost-effective and sustainable over reported procedures used for synthesis of quinazolin-4(3H)-ones and propargyl amines.
An environmentally benign green and metal-free visible light mediated approach for the synthesis of biologically potent 4(3H)-quinazolinone through multicomponent reaction of readily available starting materials potassium salt of anthranilic acid, aryl carboxylic acid, aliphatic/aromatic amine catalyzed by Eosin-Y has been developed with wide range of applications in pharmaceutical. Integrated process reduces the mechanical loss of the intermediate during the process of isolation.
We report a method for the synthesis of symmetrical bibenzyls by the reductive dimerization of benzylic halides using sodium dispersion (SD). SD, a reagent consisting of sodium particles dispersed in mineral oil, has recently attracted attention as a safer but more reactive source of sodium than sodium lump. We have found that the reductive dimerization of benzylic halides proceeds within 1 h at room temperature in tetrahydrofuran (THF) solvent using SD as a reducing agent. This method is highly sustainable for the synthesis of symmetrical bibenzyls since it uses sodium, which is abundant on earth. As the SD-derived mineral oil in the crude product can be readily removed, three natural products were synthesized on a gram scale without the need for column chromatography. The utility of this reaction was also exemplified by a decagram-scale reaction using 2-methyltetrahydrofuran, known as a green alternative solvent to THF.

