Nano-Ceria (CeO2): An Efficient Catalyst for the Multi-Component Synthesis of a Variety of Key Medicinal Heterocyclic Compounds

Abstract

This review gives an overview of the applications of ceria nanoparticles as inexpensive, efficient, reusable, and environmentally sustainable heterogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of a variety of key medicinal heterocyclic compounds with the emphasis on mechanistic aspects of the reactions. Literature has been surveyed from 2005 to 2018.