MULTICOMPONENT REACTIONS IN THE SYNTHESIS OF HETEROCYCLES

Abstract

This special issue ''Multicomponent reactions in the synthesis of heterocycles'', using the formats of reviews, "Heterocycles in focus", and original contributions, represents a snap shot of a highly dynamic field and spans the broad range from recent advances in isonitrile-based heterocycle synthesis to Michael acceptors and their en route transformation, from cycloadditions and cyclization starting from carbonyl groups to their masked synthetic equivalents, from reactivity-based to property-based concepts. The interested reader will discover the dynamics and exciting new results in this compilation of heterocycle syntheses by MCRs.