ADVANCES IN HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY

R] Dean, F. M. Recent Advances in Furan Chemistry. Part I. In Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Katritzky, A. R., Ed. Academic Press New York, 1982 Vol, 30, 167-238. 

Volume 76 of Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry is concerned with heteroaromatic tautomerism. This subject was first dealt with in a comprehensive manner in Volumes 1 and 2 of Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, which appeared in 1963 and 1964. This material was updated in a special supplementary volume, which appeared in 1976. Subsequently, much further information has become available and we have now attempted to bring the whole subject up-to-date. 

Tlie first two chapters in this volume continue the survey of heteroaromatic tautomerism that was the topic of Volume 76 of Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry. Tliis whole subject was first dealt with comprehensively in Volumes 1 and 2 of our series, which date back to 1963 and 1964.Tlie area was updated in a special supplementary volume of the series that appeared in 1976 but is now seriously out of date. Tire chapters in Volume 76 deal with a general introduction and the tautomerism of tive-membered monocyclic rings systems. 

A. R. Katritzky ed., in Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Academic Press, New York, 1963-1999. 

Volume 78 of Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry contains four contributions. A. P. Sadimenko of Fort Hare University of South Africa has covered organometal-lic compounds of furan, thiophene, and their benzannulated derivatives. This constitutes the first installment of a projected series on the organometallic chemistry of heteroaromatic ligands, a subject of great fundamental and technical importance that has exploded in the 1990s. 

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