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

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.