Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Vol. 30

(from preface)Volume 30 contains seven chapters. That dealing with ''Furans'' by F. M. Dean updates the review entitled ''The Development of the Chemistry of Furans 1952-1963'' by F. Bosshard and С. Н. Eugster which was published in Volume 7.Dr. S. T. Reid has contributed the first of two sections on photochemistry of heterocycles, the present one dealing with that of /V-heterocycles. This updates part of his own earlier review ''The Photochemistry of Heterocycles'' published in 1970inVolume 11. A further contribution, which will extend the updating to O- and 5-heterocycles, should be published shortly. Dr. A. B. Hornfeldts review, entitled ''Selenophenes,'' also deals with a subject that was previously reviewed in Volume 12 of this series by N. N. Magdesieva.The remaining four chapters of the present volume involve topics new to the series. Two of them deal with specific groups of compounds (C. J. Moody on ''Azodicarbonyl Compounds'' and T. Sasaki on ''Heteroada-mantanes'') and two others deal with the ''Use of Transition Organome-tallic Compounds in Heterocyclic Synthesis'' (J. L. Davidson and P. N. Preston) and ''Sulfur Transfer Reagents''