| Rearrangements of Epoxy Alcohols and Related Compounds. A Review by G. Magnusson | 547 |
| Direct Alkylation of Nitroarenes via Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution of Hydrogen by Z. Wrobel and M. Makosza | 575 |
| Synthesis of 2-Chloro-3-alkyl- and arylquinolines by F. Korodi and Z. Cziaky | 579 |
| Synthesis of α-Chloro-α,β-unsaturated Aldimines and α-Chloro-α,β-unsaturated Aldehydes by C. Stevens and N. de Kimpe | 589 |
| The Preparation of Nα-t-Boc-2,3-diaminopropionic Acid and of Nα-t-Boc-2,4-diaminobutyric Acid Derivatives Suitable for Solid-phase Peptide Synthesis by C. F. Stanfield, A. M. Felix and W. Danho | 597 |
| Convenient C-3 Oxidation of Deoxy- and Aminodeoxy Sugars by M. Madi-Puskas, P. Laszlo, I. F. Pelyvas and F. Sztaricskai | 605 |
| A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of 5-Substituted Benzoxazoles by K. R. Kunz, E. W. Taylor, H. M. Hutton and B. J. Blackburn | 613 |
| Convenient Preparation of Metabolites of 6-n-Propylthiouracil by F. S. Guziec, L. J. SanFilippo and L. M. Wasmund | 619 |
| OPPI Briefs (J.-P. Anselme, Editor) | 623 |
| A Facile Synthesis of 5-Deoxy-D-ribonic Acid Lactone and 5-Deoxy-D-ribose (Escandar and Sala) | 623 |
| A Synthesis of (±)-3-Acetoxy-2,6-dimethyl-1,5-heptadiene, the Sex Pheromone of the Comstock Mealybug (Kang and Park) | 627 |
| Improved Method for the Bisallylation of cis-Bicyclo[3.3.\0]octane-3,7-dione via the Claisen Rearrangement (Sambasivarao and Cook) | 630 |
| Biomimetic Modeling of Asymmetric Synthesis of Aralkyl Sulfoxides using β-Cyclo-dextrin Complexes (Rao, Kumar, Bhanumathi and Sattur) | 632 |
| Dimethyl 4-Nitrophenylmalonate (Bowman and Bowman) | 636 |
| An Improved Synthesis of 3-Nitrofluorene (Moran and Emmett) | 639 |
| Am Improved Synthesis of 4',5'-Diaminobenzo-15 crown-5 (G#246k) | 641 |
| Preparation of an o-Substituted Benzamidine by the Pinner Method. A Literature Clarification (Cheng) | 643 |
| An Improved Synthesis of 4,8,9,10-Tetraaryl-1,3-diazaadamantanes (Sivasubramanian, Sundaravadivelu and Arumugam) | 645 |
| An Improved Ozonolytic Approach of 6-Oxoheptanal (Karim and Sampson) | 648 |
| A Convenient Preparation of (+)-5(S)-Methyl-2(5H)-furanone. Synthesis of (S)-(+)-Sulcatol (Kang, Lee and Kim) | 651 |
| Arginine, Histidine and Tryptophan in Peptide Synthesis. The Indole Function of Tryptophan. A Review by B. Rzeszotarska and E. Masiukiewicz | 655 |
| Recent Progress in the Synthesis and Reactivity of Nitroketones. A Review by G. Rosini, R. Ballini, M. Petrini, E. Marotta and P. Righi | 707 |
| One-step Synthesis of Trifluoromethyl- and of Methoxy-substituted Benzyne Precursors by G. L. Grunewald, A. J. Kolar, M. S. S. Palanki, V. M. Paradkar, T. J. Reitz and D. J. Sall | 747 |
| The Friedel-Crafts Reaction of Phenols with Carbethoxy Isothiocyanate by T. Jagodzinski | 755 |
| OPPI Briefs (J.-P. Anselme, Editor) | 761 |
| An Improved Synthesis of (R)- and (S)-2-Methylpiperazine (Kiely and Priebe) | 761 |
| Transformation of Some β-Tetralones to 1,3-Diformyl-2-chloronaphthalenes (Evans, Lloyd, LeBeau and Sokoloski) | 764 |
| A Convenient Preparation of Ethyl 3,3-Dimethyl-3H-indole-2-carboxylate (Fishwick, Jones, Mitchell) | 766 |
| Indexes | 769 |