10.1007/s40097-017-0247-0

Recent developments on nano-ZnO catalyzed synthesis of bioactive heterocycles

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  • Bubun Banerjee*1,
  1. Department of Chemistry, Indus International University, Una, Himachal Pradesh, 174301, IN
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Banerjee, B. (2017). Recent developments on nano-ZnO catalyzed synthesis of bioactive heterocycles. Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, 7(4 (December 2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40097-017-0247-0
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Abstract

Abstract Last decade has seen tremendous applications of nano-ZnO as a mild, cheap, efficient, commercially available, environmentally benign, non-toxic, reusable, heterogeneous catalyst for the various organic transformations. The present review summarizes the applications of nano-ZnO as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of diverse biologically relevant heterocycles reported so far. Graphical abstract

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  • Bioactive heterocycles,
  • Environmetally benign, Heterogeneous catalysts,
  • Nano-ZnO,
  • Organic synthesis
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