Intramolecular reversible addition reaction

Ring-chain tautomerism via intramolecular reversible addition reactions to the C=0 group 95AHC(64)251. 

Recent Developments in Ring-Chain Tautomerism L Intramolecular Reversible Addition Reactions to the C = O Group ... 

This chapter is the first part of a review that updates an earlier work by R. E. Valters and W. Flitsch, Ring-Chain Tautomerism (A. R. Katritzky, ed.). Plenum Press, New York and London, 1985. The second part of this review, to be published in a subsequent volume of Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, includes data (1982-1993) for intramolecular reversible addition reactions to C = N, C=N, C = C, and C=C groups. 

Ring-chain tautomeric interconversions proceeding by intramolecular reversible addition reactions to the C=0 group (Scheme 1) have been well studied, particularly with respect to the 3- and 4-oxocarboxylic acids containing five- or six-membered rings, respectively. Relatively few new investigations have appeared in the literature. 

Valters, R. E., Ffilop, F., Korbonits, D., Recent Developments in Ring-Chain Tautomerism I. Intramolecular Reversible Addition Reaction of the C = 0 Group,... 

III. Intramolecular Reversible Addition Reactions to Other Groups. 54... 

Volume 66 of our serial consists of five chapters. Ring-chain tautomerism was covered in an authoritative monograph by Valters and Flitch, which appeared in 1985. Now Professor Valters (Latvia), together with Professor Fiilop and Dr. Korbonits (Hungary), has updated this monograph in two chapters for our serial. The first of these has already appeared in Volume 64. The second, covering intramolecular reversible addition reactions to C=N and other groups, constitutes the first chapter of this volume. 

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