FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE APPLICATION ; 1. Applications of Microwave Dielectric Heating Effects to Synthetic Problems in Chemistry ; 2. Overview of Microwave-Assisted Sample Preparation ; 3. Environmental Microwave Sample Preparation: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications ; ALTERNATIVE LABORATORY MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS ; 4. Development of High-Pressure Closed-Vessel Systems for Microwave-Assisted Sample Digestion ; 5. Focused-Microwave-Assisted Reactions: Atmospheric-Pressure Acid Digestion, On-Line Pretreatment and Acid Digestion, Volatile Species Production, and Extraction ; 6. Applying Flow Methodology to Microwave-Enhanced Reactions ; 7. Pressure-Controlled Microwave-Assisted Wet Digestion Systems ; CHEMISTRY APPLICATIONS ; 8. Microwave Heating in Organic Chemistry: An Update ; 9. Use of Microwave Heating in Undergraduate Organic Laboratories ; 10. Microwave-Assisted Inorganic Reactions ; 11. Applications of Microwaves in Catalytic Chemistry ; 12. Microwave-Assisted Solvent Extraction ; BIOCHEMISTRY APPLICATIONS ; 13. Microwave Hydrolysis of Proteins and Peptides for Amino Acid Analysis ; 14. Microwave Methods for Sample Preparation in Pathology ; ACCESSING SAMPLE PREPARATION INFORMATION ON THE WWW ; 15. SamplePrep Web: Analytical Sample-Preparation and Microwave-Chemistry Resource Center ; LABORATORY MICROWAVE SAFETY ; 16. Laboratory Microwave Safety
