This volume covers the literature of organophosphorus chemistry published in
the period from January 2007 to January 2008, and continues our efforts in
recent years to provide a more up to date survey of progress in this topic which,
once again, has generated a vast amount of research, particularly in the
chemistry of nucleic acids and nucleotides, although other areas, e.g.,
phosphine and phosphorane chemistry, have seen a small reduction in activity.
The volume sees the welcome return of coverage of the area of mononucleotide
chemistry by Marie Migaud (Queen’s University, Belfast), who has provided a
two-year survey of the 2006 and 2007 literature. We also welcome Professor
Irina Odinets (Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Chemistry, Moscow)
who has covered phosphonium salts and related ylides, and also Professor
Piotr Balczewski and Dr Agnieszka Bodzioch (Centre of Molecular and
Macromolecular Studies, Lodz, Poland) who have reviewed quinquevalent
compounds