Volume 2 of ‘Heterocyclic Chemistry’ covcrs original material abstracted from
Volumes 91 and 92 (i.e. July 1979 to June 1980) of Chemical Abstracts; i.e.,
material essentially published in 1978-9. The arrangement of the Chapters
follows the scheme adopted in Volume 1, and thus provides continuity and
hopefully facilitates searching by virtue of an extensive ‘Table of Contents‘. For
reasons of economy, our contributors had to keep their reviews within a strictly
defined number of pages and were, therefore, obliged to select only the more
significant advances in the field. We hope readers will agree that comprehensibility
has in no way suffered. The policy to illustrate as many reactions as
possible by formulae has been maintained, since we feel this to be essential for a
rapid understanding of the subject and for enabling the hard-pressed organic
chemist to browse through the book with least effort.
Our thanks go to authors for delivering manuscripts in good time for the earliest
possible publication and to the editorial staff of the Royal Society of Chemistry for
their invaluable help and advice.