(from preface)

The present volume encompasses a wide range of heterocyclic chemistry. Syntheses of heterocycles from thioureas are reviewed by T. S. Griffin, T. S. Woods, and I). L. Klayman, while 8. W. Schneller describes the chemistry of benzothiins and their derivatives (thiochromans. thiochromones, and thio-chromanones). Developments in chrom-3-ene chemistry are reviewed by L. Merlini. F. D. Popp contributes a chapter on the isatins. A discussion of theoretical aspects of the tautomerism of pyrimidines, by J. S. Kwiatkowski and B. Pullman, follows up a corresponding earlier contribution (Vol. 13) on tautomeric purines. In the final chapter P. and D. Cagniant describe the natural occurrence ami synthesis of the bcnzofurans.