In imidazole chemistry

M.R. Grimmett, Advances in Imidazole Chemistry, Adv. Heterocycl. Chem. 12, 213 (1970). 

Grimmett, M. R., Advances in Imidazole Chemistry, 12, 103 27, 241 Electrophilic Substitution in the Azines, 47, 325 Halogenation of Heterocycles I. Five-member ed Rings, 57, 291 II. Six and Seven-numbered Rings, 58, 271 III. Heterocycles Fused to Other Aromatic and Heteroaromatic Rings, 59, 245. 

A comprehensive monograph on imidazole and its derivatives by K. Hofmann1 was published in 1953. A chapter dealing with imidazoles and condensed imidazoles by Schipper and Hay2 in Heterocyclic Compounds edited by Elderfield reviewed the literature to 1955, while a more recent review by Pozharskii et al.3 brought the chemistry of imidazole and some important condensed imidazoles up to date to 1964. A number of monographs on the chemistry of heterocyclic compounds4-10 have also dealt with aspects of imidazole chemistry in a necessarily brief manner. Specific topics in imidazole chemistry and biochemistry have been covered in further reviews.11-21 In the most... 

It becomes apparent when one is faced with a synthetic problem in imidazole chemistry that there is no single, widely applicable synthetic procedure. Even the methods devised by Bredereck (Section II, A) and the reaction of a-aminoketones with cyanates or thiocyanates (Section II, F) have limitations. 

---