Volume 69 of Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry consists of six contributions.
The opening chapter, by Professor R. M. Moriarty and Dr. 0. M.
Prakash of the University of Illinois at Chicago, summarizes the use of
organohypervalent iodine reagents in the synthesis of organic compounds,
a subject of increasing importance and one for which no general review
has as yet appeared.
Dr. Istvan Hermecz (Chinoin, Budapest, Hungary) covers the chemistry
of pyrido[l,2-b][1,2]oxazines, -thiazines, and -pyridazines and their benzologs,
compound classes that have not previously been reviewed but which
in recent years have shown increasing significance with regard to their
biological and other properties. This forms the first installment of a set of
three chapters: the subsequent installments in later volumes of our series
will deal with (i) [1,2-c]-fused 1,3-oxazines, 1,2-thiazines, and pyrimidines;
(ii) [2,1-b]-fused analogs; and (iii) fused 1,4-oxazines and lP-thiazines.