title: Recent advances in the synthesis of pyrroles by multicomponent reactions.
abstract: Pyrrole is one of the most important one-ring heterocycles. The ready availability of suitably substituted and functionalized pyrrole derivatives is essential for the progress of many branches of science, including biology and materials science. Access to this key heterocycle by multicomponent routes is particularly attractive in terms of synthetic efficiency, and also from the environmental point of view. We update here our previous review on this topic by describing the progress made in this area in the period between mid-2009 and the end of 2013.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Orgánica y Farmacéutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain. josecm@ucm.es.
authors.forename: Verónica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Estévez
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Villacampa
authors.forename: J Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Menéndez
mesh_terms: D006571:Heterocyclic Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D011758:Pyrroles / Q000138:chemical synthesis*
chemical_list: D006571:Heterocyclic Compounds; D011758:Pyrroles