Shriniwas L Kelkar is a Reader in Organic Chemistry at University of Pune. After an active research career and publishing work on heterocyclic chemistry, he is now devoting his entire time and attention to propagate the small-scale experiments. On demand, he is available to conduct workshops for training teachers on microscale techniques.

Dilip D Dhavale is a Reader in Organic Chemistry at University of Pune. He is pursuing his research career in carbohydrate chemistry. He had been associated with popularizing microscale chemistry from its inception in India.

Jeevan G Chandwadkar is a Reader in Physical Chemistry at Department of Chemistry, University of Pune. His research interests are molecular structure and zeolites.

It is evident from the earlier articles in this series that considerable time and money can be saved if the academic laboratories are to adopt microscale techniques. In this context, however, the point regarding consumption of large quantities of chemicals appears irrelevant from the physical chemistry point of view. Most of the experiments are already being performed with instruments and require per se small amounts of chemicals. However, we felt that many of the traditional procedures should be reviewed and rewritten to bring about not only further reduction in chemicals, time and energy but also bring theory closer to the laboratories.

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Address for Correspondence
Shriniwas L Kelkar
Department of Chemistry
University of Pune
Pune 411 007, India.
Email: skelkar@chem.unipune.ernet.in
or skelkar@vsnl.com