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Water is the ideal medium to perform the chemical  reactions with magnetically recyclable nano-catalysts, as this combination adds tremendous value to the overall benign reaction process development. In this review, we highlight recent developments inthe use of water and magnetically recyclable nano-catalysts  (W-MRNs) for a variety of organic reactions namely hydrogenation, condensation, oxidation, and Suzuki\u2013Miyaura cross-coupling reactions, among others.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/app3040656","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,10,28]],"date-time":"2013-10-28T09:07:13Z","timestamp":1382951233000},"page":"656-674","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":90,"title":["Sustainable Utility of Magnetically Recyclable Nano-Catalysts in Water: Applications in Organic Synthesis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Manoj","family":"Gawande","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Anuj","family":"Rathi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jubilant Chemsys Ltd., B-34, Sector-58, Noida-201301, New Delhi, India"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7312-8596","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paula","family":"Branco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9731-6228","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rajender","family":"Varma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sustainable Technology Division, National Risk Management Research Laboratory,  US Environmental Protection Agency, MS 443, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive,  Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,10,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3371","DOI":"10.1039\/c3cs35480f","article-title":"Nano-magnetite (Fe3O4) as a support for recyclable catalysts in the development of sustainable methodologies","volume":"42","author":"Gawande","year":"2013","journal-title":"Chem. 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