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This series presents critical reviews of the present position and future trends in modern chemical research. The short and concise reports on chemistry, each written by the world s renowned experts, are still valid and useful after 5 or 10 years.

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The Lobry de Bruyn-Alberda van Ekenstein Transformation and Related Reactions.- The Bílik Reaction.- Erratum.- Nickel(II)-Catalyzed Rearrangements of Free Sugars.- D-Xylose (D-Glucose) Isomerase and Related Enzymes in Carbohydrate Synthesis.- The Amadori and Heyns Rearrangements: Landmarks in the History of Carbohydrate Chemistry or Unrecognized Synthetic Opportunities?.- Substitution-with-Allylic-Rearrangement Reactions of Glycal Derivatives.- Synthetically Useful Base-Induced Rearrangements of Aldonolactones.- Rearrangements in the Course of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions.- Direct Conversion of 5,6-Unsaturated Hexopyranosyl Compounds to Functionalized Cyclohexanones.- Claisen Rearrangements in Carbohydrate Chemistry.- Miscellaneous.