Furan chemistry

For reviews on furan chemistry see References 1, 4—7. The monograph by Dunlop and Peters (1), pubHshed in 1953 remains as the most comprehensive review of furan chemistry available. Unfortunately, it has never been revised, has been out of print for many years, and is not readily available. An excellent, review by Dean (7) covers advances in furan chemistry up through about 1982. 

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. 

I am deeply grateful to my former colleagues Ruben Alvarez, Heriberto Campand, Norma Galego, Carlos Hernandez, Ricardo Martinez, Jacques Rieumont, and Silvia Prieto for their valuable contributions to the knowledge of furan chemistry and for making my long stay in Cuba such a fulfilling experience. 

This review of furan chemistry is meant to continue the earlier survey by Bosshard and Eugster1 and concentrates upon the period 1968 to the end of 1979. Like the earlier review, this one is limited to the chemistry of the monocyclic furan nucleus and does not deal, except incidentally, with fused rings such as benzofuran or its quinones. Nor does it deal in detail with dihydro- or tetrahydrofurans, nor with compounds like furylpyridine that contain some other heterocyclic nucleus as well. Some butenolides and tetronic acids are admitted to consideration since they are the carbonyl equivalents of hydroxyfurans regarded as enols, but side-chain reactions are wholly excluded unless the furan nucleus clearly affects them in some important way. 

J. Bleidelis, K. Venters, and R. Gevars, Advances in Furan Chemistry. Zinate Riga,... 

Sec. II.K] RECENT ADVANCES IN FURAN CHEMISTRY. PART I 189 K. From Pyran and Pyridine Derivatives... 

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