Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Five-Membered Heterocycles

Five-membered heterocycles are very important from the synthetic aspect because of their enormous pharmacological applications. Several new reagents, substrates and methods are being developed every year to facilitate their synthesis. This review is an effort to sum up the methods recently utilized in the synthesis of this important group of heterocycles. Keywords: Azole, oxadiazole, thiadiazole, triazole, selenazole, furan