| abstract |
The invention provides a method of conducting organic reactions in a laboratory-scale, independent solar photothermochemical reactor for carrying out organic reactions requiring elevated temperature, light and mechanical agitation, all three forms of energy being simultaneously derived from solar radiation. Organic synthesis such as bromination of toluene derivatives (benzylic bromination), bromination of cyclic acyclic hydrocarbon and oxidative cyclization of N-phenylethylbenzamide by bromination were successfully carried out in such reactors. |