(from preface)
Volume 54 of Advances in HeterocycUc Chemistry is a monograph volume, i.e., it is devoted to a single subject, the aminomethylenemalo-nates.
Aminomethylenemalonates are of great importance in heterocyclic synthesis and have been used in the preparation of a very wide variety of heterocycles. The chemistry of this group of compounds has not been reviewed in more than 50 years. The present treatment by Istvln Hermecz and colleagues, Geza Kareszturi and Lelle Vasv^ri-Debreczy. provides a comprehensive overview.
After an introductory section, work from the 19th century is briefly considered and subsequent sections discuss in turn the structure and physicochemical properties of the aminomethylenemalonates, theirprepa-ration, and, in the largest sections, the application of the aminomethylenemalonates to heterocyclic synthesis...