Abstract:
The invention demonstrates a process for conducting organic reactions in a standalone laboratory scale solar photo thermo chemical reactor for conducting organic reactions requiring elevated temperature, light and mechanical agitation, where all three energy forms are 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-phenylethyl benzamide through bromination were successfully conducted in such reactors.