Skip to main content

Books in Heterocyclic chemistry

Practical Heterocyclic Chemistry
A Lab Manual for Syntheses of Heterocycles
1st Edition
December 18, 2025
Vaidhyanathan Balasubramaniyan
English
Practical Heterocyclic Chemistry: A Lab Manual for Syntheses of Heterocycles delves into the entwined history of heterocyclic chemistry and general organic chemistry, tracing their evolution from crude isolation and utilization of bioactive natural products to their current, pivotal role in enhancing the quality of life for humanity and all living organisms. The book provides a concise overview of the enabling technologies and modern toolkits that facilitate complex general organic and heterocyclic syntheses, while also emphasizing the importance of safe and sustainable synthesis processes that are shaped by the game-changing principles of green chemistry.Readers are also made aware of crucial safety considerations in laboratory practice, including hazard mitigation related to starting materials, products, solvents, catalysts, and lab equipment handling. The book covers the essential laboratory skills needed for experiment design, execution, isolation, purification, and characterization, serving as a valuable resource for modern heterocyclic synthesis in academia and industry.
Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry
1st Edition
Volume 37
November 8, 2025
R. Alan Aitken + 1 more
English
Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Volume 37 is the latest in this annual review series commissioned by the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC). Volumes in the series contain both highlights of the previous year’s literature on heterocyclic chemistry and articles on new developing topics of particular interest to heterocyclic chemists. Chapters are all written by leading researchers in their field, brining a systematic survey of the important original material reported in the literature of heterocyclic chemistry in 2024.As with previous volumes in the series, this new release enables academic and industrial chemists and advanced students to keep abreast of developments in heterocyclic chemistry in a convenient way.
Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry (PHC)
1st Edition
Volume 36
November 10, 2024
R. Alan Aitken + 1 more
English
Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry (PHC), Volume 36 is the latest in this annual review series commissioned by the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC). Volumes in the series contain both highlights of the previous year’s literature on heterocyclic chemistry and articles on new and developing topics of particular interest to heterocyclic chemists. The highlight chapters in this volume are all written by leading researchers in their fields, and these chapters constitute a systematic survey of the important original material reported in the literature of heterocyclic chemistry in 2023.As with previous volumes in the series, this update will enable academic and industrial chemists, and advanced students, to keep abreast of developments in heterocyclic chemistry in a convenient way.
Iodine-Assisted Synthesis of Six- and Seven-Membered Heterocycles
1st Edition
February 9, 2023
Navjeet Kaur
English
Iodine-Assisted Synthesis of Six- and Seven-Membered Heterocycles covers both existing and the latest methods for the synthesis of various six- and seven-membered heterocycles using iodine. Covering an important and rapidly growing branch of heterocyclic chemistry, this book allows users easy access to the synthetic protocols for the synthesis of heterocycles, acting as a guide for how to make these important compounds employed as agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and veterinary products, using particular reagents. This book will be of interest to students, pharmacologists, biochemists, and organic and medicinal chemists.
Raney Nickel-Assisted Synthesis of Heterocycles
1st Edition
April 4, 2022
Navjeet Kaur
English
Raney Nickel-Assisted Synthesis of Heterocycles covers the synthesis of heterocycles using Raney nickel. The book focuses on the use of Raney-Ni, a common catalyst in hydrogenation reaction and its uses in the synthesis and preparation of heterocycles. Furthermore, it explains how the development of new approaches and strategic deployments in known approaches for the formation of complex heterocyclic compounds continue to drive the field of synthetic organic chemistry, along with updates on efforts to prepare heterocycles through the development of new and efficient synthetic transformations. Heterocyclic chemistry is an inexhaustible source of novel compounds, providing the most diverse chemical, physical and biological properties through the design of a wide range of combinations of carbon, hydrogen and heteroatoms. Significant focus has been paid to novel approaches to the formation of heterocyclic compounds, which are of practical use acting as modifiers and additives in a wide range of industries such as reprography, plastics, cosmetics, vulcanization accelerators, solvents, antioxidants and information storage.
Green Synthetic Approaches for Biologically Relevant Heterocycles
Volume 1: Advanced Synthetic Techniques
2nd Edition
February 26, 2021
Goutam Brahmachari
English
Green Synthetic Approaches for Biologically Relevant Heterocycles, Second Edition, Volume One: Advanced Synthetic Techniques reviews this significant group of organic compounds within the context of sustainable methods and processes, expanding on the first edition with fully updated coverage and a whole range of new chapters. Volume One explores advanced synthetic techniques, with each chapter presenting in-depth coverage of various green protocols for the synthesis of a wide variety of bioactive heterocycles that are classified on the basis of ring-size and/or the presence of heteroatoms. Techniques covered range from high pressure cycloaddition reactions and microwave irradiation to sustainable one-pot domino reactions. This updated edition is an essential resource on sustainable approaches for academic researchers, R&D professionals, and students working across medicinal, organic, natural product and green chemistry.
Green Synthetic Approaches for Biologically Relevant Heterocycles
Volume 2: Green Catalytic Systems and Solvents
2nd Edition
February 26, 2021
Goutam Brahmachari
English
Green Synthetic Approaches for Biologically Relevant Heterocycles, Second Edition, Volume Two: Green Catalytic Systems and Solvents reviews this significant group of organic compounds within the context of sustainable methods and processes, expanding on the first edition with fully updated coverage and a whole range of new chapters. Volume Two explores green catalytic systems and solvents and the techniques surrounding this approach, including metal and magnetic catalysis to organocatalysis and solid acid catalysis, cycloaddition reactions, and varied approaches using ionic liquids. This updated edition is an essential resource on sustainable approaches for academic researchers, R&D professionals, and students working across medicinal, organic, natural product and green chemistry.
Metal and Nonmetal Assisted Synthesis of Six-Membered Heterocycles
1st Edition
April 25, 2020
Navjeet Kaur
English
Metal and Nonmetal Assisted Synthesis of Six-Membered Heterocycles provides a useful guide to key approaches being explored in this area. The volume highlights synthetic approaches and catalytic options that facilitate the construction of multiple substituted molecules under mild conditions from easily available starting substrates. Drawing on the experience of its expert author, the book is a useful guide on the key approaches being explored in this area. Following a user-friendly structure based on specific six-membered heterocycle ring groups, this volume highlights synthetic approaches and catalytic options that facilitate the construction of multiple substituted molecules under mild conditions from easily available starting substrates.
Organometallic Chemistry of Five-Membered Heterocycles
1st Edition
October 16, 2019
Alexander Sadimenko
English
Organometallic Chemistry of Five-Membered Heterocycles explores the synthesis, coordination modes, reactivity of coordinated five-membered monoheterocycles, and organometallic complexes of their numerous derivatives, including chelating ligands, oligomers, and macrocycles. Beginning with the introduction of organometallic compounds, this book dives deep into the reactivity of coordinated five-membered monoheterocycles and the derivatives of fundamental ligands. This book is an ideal reference for researchers working in organometallic, heterocyclic, materials, or organic chemistry, and catalysis. The readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of modern synthetic methods, reactivity trends of heteroaromatic ligands, and the methods of modern materials construction.
The Chemistry of Heterocycles
Nomenclature and Chemistry of Three to Five Membered Heterocycles
1st Edition
June 1, 2019
Vishnu Ji Ram + 3 more
English
Heterocycles are ubiquitously present in nature and occupy a unique place in organic chemistry as they are part of the DNA and haemoglobin that make life possible. The Chemistry of Heterocycles covers an introduction to the topic, followed by a chapter on the nomenclature of all classes of isolated, fused and polycyclic heterocycles. The third chapter delineates the highly strained three membered N,O and S containing aromatic and non-aromatic heterocycles with one and more than one similar and dissimilar heteroatom. The four-membered heterocycles are abundantly present in various natural and synthetic products of pharmacological importance. This chapter describes the natural abundance, synthesis, chemical reactivity, structural features and their medicinal importance. This class of compounds are present as sub-structures in penicillin and cytotoxic Taxol. Lastly, a chapter on the natural abundance, synthesis, chemical reactivity and pharmacological importance of 5-membered heterocycles with N,O,S heteroatom is covered. The chemistry of heterocycles with mixed heteroatom such as, N-S, N-O, N-S etc. is also described.