Drawing from over 2,500 papers, this volume eliminates the need for time-consuming literature surveys for pyrimidines from 1970 through 1983. Chapters summarize the major advances in pyrimidine chemistry, detail advances in methods of primary synthesis of pyrimidines, update all aspects of hydropyrimidines, and treat recent advances in the ionization and spectra of pyrimidines.

Desmond J. Brown is Professor of Chemistry at The Australian National University's Research School of Chemistry.

R. F. Evans, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

T. J. Batterham, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.