1. Editorial

   • C. Oliver Kappe

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 95 - 95

2. Arylboronic acids as versatile coupling partners in fast microwave promoted oxidative Heck chemistry

   • Murugaiah M. S. Andappan
   • Peter Nilsson
   • Mats Larhed

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 106

3. A rapid microwave protocol for Heck vinylation of aryl chlorides under air

   • Gopal K. Datta
   • Karl S. A. Vallin
   • Mats Larhed

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 114

4. Studies on high-temperature amination reactions of aromatic chlorides using discrete Palladium-N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) complexes and in situ palladium/imidazolium salt protocols

   • Andrew J. McCarroll
   • David A. Sandham
   • Stephen Caddick

   OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 123

5. Microwave-enhanced transition metal-catalyzed decoration of 2(1H)-pyrazinone scaffolds

   • Nadya Kaval
   • Katalin Bisztray
   • Erik Van der Eycken

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 134

6. Microwave-assisted Mannich-type three-component reactions

   • Nicholas E. Leadbeater
   • Hanna M. Torenius
   • Heather Tye

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 144

7. Efficient large scale microwave assisted Mannich reactions using substituted acetophenones

   • Fredrik Lehmann
   • Åke Pilotti
   • Kristina Luthman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 152

8. A one-pot microwave-assisted synthesis of pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines

   • NÚria Mont
   • Jordi Teixidó
   • José I. Borrell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 159

9. One-pot microwave assisted preparation of pyrazoloquinazolinone libraries

   • Thomas E. Vasquez Jr.
   • Thomas Nixey
   • Christopher Hulme

   OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 164

10. Efficient microwave assisted synthesis of optically active bicyclic 2-pyridinones via Δ²-thiazolines

    • Hans Emtenäs
    • Camilla Taflin
    • Fredrik Almqvist

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 169

11. A study of the synthesis of triazoles using microwave irradiation

    • Kenneth A. Savin
    • Michael Robertson
    • Jessie Bishop

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 174

12. Enhancing stereochemical diversity by means of microwave irradiation in the absence of solvent: Synthesis of highly substituted nitroproline esters via 1,3-dipolar reactions

    • Angel Díaz-Ortiz
    • Antonio de la Hoz
    • Concepción Foces-Foces

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 180

13. Microwave-assisted Pd(0)-catalyzed amination of aryl halides on solid support

    • Klaus Weigand
    • Sylvie Pelka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 184

14. Microwave-enhanced liquid-phase synthesis of thiohydantoins and thioxotetrahydropyrimidinones

    • Wen-Ben Yeh
    • Mei-Jung Lin
    • Chung-Ming Sun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 198

15. Combination of microwave reactions with fluorous separations in the palladium-catalyzed synthesis of aryl sulfides

    • Wei Zhang
    • Yimin Lu
    • Christine Hiu-Tung Chen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 202

16. Microwaves, supported-reagents and parallel synthesis: Isocyanide and ester synthesis

    • Stefano Crosignani
    • Delphine Launay
    • Mark Bradley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 210

17. Combining the use of solid‐supported transition metal catalysis with microwave irradiation in solution‐phase parallel library synthesis

    • Michael G. Organ
    • Stanislas Mayer
    • Jayantilal Khatri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 227

18. Microwave-assisted scavenging of electrophiles utilizing polymer-supported sequestration reagents. Application to the synthesis of N3-acylated dihydropyrimidine libraries

    • Doris Dallinger
    • Nikolay Yu. Gorobets
    • C. Oliver Kappe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 245

19. Microwave-assisted acylation of 7-amino-5-aryl-6-cyanopyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines

    • Robb Nicewonger
    • April Fowke
    • Carmen M. Baldino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 252

20. Tools for microwave-assisted parallel syntheses and combinatorial chemistry

    • Matthias Nüchter
    • Bernd Ondruschka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 264

21. Temperature dependent photochemical cleavage of 2,5-dimethylphenacyl esters

    • Jaromír Literík
    • Stanislav Relich
    • Petr Klán

    OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 271

22. Microwaves in drug discovery and multi-step synthesis

    • François-René Alexandre
    • Lisianne Domon
    • Thierry Besson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 280

23. Focused™ microwave instrumentation from CEM corporation

    • J. Doug Ferguson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 286

24. Milestone's microwave labstation

    • Laura Favretto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 290

25. Microwave synthesis solutions from personal chemistry

    • Jon-Sverre Schanche

    OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 298

26. Keyword Index

    Subject Index Pages: 301 - 303

27. Author Index

    Authors Index Pages: 301 - 302

28. Contents of volume 7

    Volume Contents Pages: 305 - 307