This volume of the series Handbook of Zoology deals with the anatomy of the gastrointestinal digestive tract - stomach, small intestine, caecum and colon - in all eutherian orders and suborders. It presents compilations of anatomical studies, as well as an extensive list of references, which makes widely dispersed literature accessible. Introductory sections to orders and suborders give notice to biology, taxonomy, biogeography and food of the respective taxon. It is a characteristic of this book that different sections of the post-oesophageal tract are discussed separately from each other. Informations on form and function of organs of digestion in eutherians are discussed under comparative-anatomical aspects. The variability and diversity of anatomical structures represents the basis of functional differentiations.

Dianions and masked dianions represent important building blocks for the regioselective formation of carbon-carbon bonds. Cyclocondensation reactions of 1,3-bis(silyl enol ethers) with different mono(silyl enol ethers) provide an elegant approach for the synthesis of various complex carba- and heterocycles from simple starting materials. A variety of functionalized and sterically encumbered triarylmethanes were prepared by combination of FeCl3-catalyzed benzylations of 1,3-diketones and formal 3]3] cyclocondensation reactions of 1,3-bis(silyl enol ethers) and 3-benzyl-1-silyloxy-1-en-3-ones. Subsequently, 4-methoxy-, 4-chloro and 4-flulro-substituted triarylmethanes are prepared The products are not readily available by other methods. In addition, functionalized diarylmethanes have been also prepared by cyclocondensation of 1.3-bis(silyl enol ethers) with with respective 3-benzyl-1-silyloxy-1-en-3-ones. Further more, dianions were converted to useful cyclic structure of pyranones with functionalized benzaldehydes providing a new strategy. Varius pyranones were synthecized containing 3-bromo-, 4-Methyl-, 4Phenyl-, 4-methoxy- and 4-hydoxy-phenyle groups.