The author is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at Bangalore University, Bangalore. His main area of research is organosilicon chemistry with particular attention to developing new synthetic procedures and reagents, and studying the reaction mechanisms.

Though it is a common practice to run the organic reactions in solvent media, the chemists’ concern to minimize the environmental pollution caused by solvents and also their academic interest in solid-solid reactions have led them in recent times to develop methodologies for solvent-free reactions with considerable success.

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