Heterocycles Essay

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1. Introduction
Heterocyclic chemistry is the branch of chemistry dealing with the synthesis, properties and applications of heterocycles. The name comes from the greek word “heteros” which means “different”. Any of a class of organic compounds whose molecules contain one or more rings of atoms with at least one atom (the heteroatom) being an element other than carbon, most frequently oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur [1].
The most common heterocycles are classified in aliphatic and aromatic molecule. The aliphatic heterocycles are similar to the open chain analogues, ethers, amines and sulfides. These aromatic compounds follow the Huckel’s rule which states that cyclic conjugated and planar systems having (4n+2) π electrons are aromatic. Those having five or six-membered rings and containing heteroatoms of nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), or sulfur (S). The best known of the simple heterocyclic compounds are pyridine, pyrrole, furan, and thiophene. A molecule of pyridine contains a ring of six atoms-five carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom. Pyrrole, furan, and thiophene molecules each contain five-membered rings. other important molecule of quinoline, isoquinoline, 1-8 naphthyridine have a two ring heterocyclic system The history of …show more content…

For example, A short time later the first medicinal chemistry related application of the U-4CR was realized, with the one step preparation of the local anesthetic Xylocain [10]. With tremendous foresight, Ugi also recognized that the reaction was ideally suited to probe structure-activity relationships via the synthesis of ‘large collections of compounds’, now referred to as libraries [11]. Today, with the emergence of combinatorial chemistry and high-speed parallel synthesis, the multi-component reaction (MCR) is widely employed for the rapid assembly of arrays with high molecular diversity

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