Hardbound. This volume begins with two chapters concerned with the chemistry of medium and large heterocyclic rings, including lactones and lactams. This work also explores host-guest relationships within macrocycles embodying oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The authors responsible for bringing together recent progress in the chemistry of this wide assembly of compounds are Dr MacBride and his colleagues Drs Grayson and Kelly. Drs Ewing and McKenzie then survey then survey recent advances in purine chemistry and that of the attendant nucleosides. This chapter naturally leads on to a focused survey of nucleosides and nucleotides. Dr Cosstick contributed a chapter on these major subject areas to the First Supplement and he agreed to review the same subjects in this volume. Professor Pfleiderer is the world's authority on pteridine chemistry and his chapter does more than simply update work on these alkaloids. As a result of his intimate knowledge this author is

This volume deals with the chemistry of five-membered heterocycles containing at least two nitrogen atoms, or those with one, or more, nitrogens and one or more atoms from group 6 of the Peri tables. It includes chapters on: oxadiazoles and thiadiazoles; five-memebered heterocyclic compounds with four-heter-atoms in the ring; five-membered rings containing two nitrogen atoms; and five-membered heterocyclic compounds with three hetero-atoms in the ring.

Hardbound. This volume has its core aspects of the chemistry of pyrrole and pyridine, plus their benzo derivatives and reduced forms. It begins with surveys of the natural occurrence, characterization and synthesis of pyrrolidine and pyrrolizidine alkaloids and progresses on to consider the structures of the new indole alkaloids identified since 1985. Alkaloids of the tropane type and those from plants of the Amaryllidacea family are surveyed next, and a skillfully crafted review of recent work in the porphyrin series is also featured.In the last two chapters the emphasis changes slightly and a significant contribution is a discussion of chemistry of the cyanine dyestuffs and that of their allies.

Hardbound. The publication of this volume covers current work on the syntheses and reactions of pyridines, quinolines and isoquinolines. Also included are chapters (chapters 28, 30, 31 and 32) which review recent progress in the chemistry of the pyridine, quinoline and isoquinoline alkaloids. The theoretical aspects of pyridine chemistry, which were covered in a separate chapter (chapter 23) in the 2nd Edition, are now incorporated into a separate single chapter (chapter 24), without division.Recent developments in the chemistry of six-membered heterocycles containing a single phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, or bismuth atom are also surveyed. Once again, the reader of Rodd will find this volume extremely valuable since it provides a concise, yet complete, survey of a major subject area of heterocyclic chemistry.