Lemon juice mediated efficient and eco-friendly organic transformations

Abstract

Lemon juice has been extensively explored recently as highly selective and efficient biocatalyst as well as green solvent in organic synthesis. Lemon juice holds considerable promise as cheap, easily available, biodegradable, nontoxic and easy-to-construct alternative to well-studied metal-based catalysts and also it is well consistent with green chemistry theme. The present digest paper primarily aims to illustrate the progress of lemon juice mediated organic transformations towards the synthesis of a wide variety of important organic compounds. The mechanistic aspects of the reactions have been highlighted as well.