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Journal Article 
A COMPARISON OF REACTION-KINETICS OBSERVED UNDER MICROWAVE IRRADIATION AND CONVENTIONAL HEATING 
Raner, KD; Strauss, CR; Vyskoc, F; Mokbel, L; , 
1993 
Yes 
Journal of Organic Chemistry
ISSN: 0022-3263
EISSN: 1520-6904 
AMER CHEMICAL SOC 
WASHINGTON 
58 
4 
950-953 
English 
WOS:A1993KM22900031 
Kinetic studies were made of two reactions under microwave heating and under conventional heating. The reactions were the acid-catalyzed isomerization of carvone to carvacrol and the Diels-Alder reaction between anthracene and diethyl maleate. It was found that the rates of these reactions were the same, within experimental error, under either mode of heating at the same temperature. The activation parameters for the isomerization were measured as E(double-dagger) = 89 +/- 3 kJ/mol, In A = 21.5 +/- 0.8 (oil bath); and E(double-dagger) = 83 +/- 5 kJ/mol, In A = 19.7 +/- 1.6 (microwave). The activation parameters for the Diels-Alder reaction were E(double-dagger) = 94 +/- 10 kJ/mol, In A = 15.6 +/- 2.3 (oil bath); and E* = 88 +/- 8 kJ/mol, In A = 13.9 +/- 2.0 (microwave).