Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry

Heterocyclic compounds play a vital role in the metabolism of living cells. Their practical applications range from extensive clinical use to fields as diverse as agriculture, photography, biocide formulation and polymer science.

Written by leading scholars and industry experts, the Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry contains more than 1500 clearly drawn structures and reactions. The highly systematic coverage given to the subject makes this one of the most authoritative single-volume accounts of modern heterocyclic chemistry available.

-Covers the structure, reactivity and synthesis of all heterocyclic compounds as distilled from the larger 15-volume reference work
-Saves researchers time when they require important information on heterocycles--speeding them to thousands of clearly drawn chemical structures and pertinent reviews by leading experts 
-Features 35% new material to compliment the completely revised text

Preliminaries - Foreword to the Handbook; Detailed Contents; Notes on Arrangement of Material in the Handbook; Explanation of the reference system.

Structure of Heterocycles - Overview; Six-membered rings; Five-membered rings with one heteroatom; Five-membered rings with two or more heteroatoms; Structure of small and large rings.

Reactivity of Heterocycles -Overview; Six-membered rings; Five-membered rings with one heteroatom; Five-membered rings with two or more heteroatoms; Reactivity of small and large rings.

Synthesis of Heterocycles - Overview; Monocyclic rings with one heteroatom; Monocyclic rings with two or more heteroatoms; Bicyclic ring systems without ring junction heteroatoms; Tri- and poly-cyclic ring systems without ring junction heteroatoms; Fused ring systems with ring junction heteroatoms.

Index