Editorial [Hot topic: Multicomponent Reactions (Guest Editor: Dr. Xu-Feng Lin)]

摘要

During the past decades, many novel multicomponent reactions (MCRs) have been added to the chemist's armamentarium and successfully applied to all fields of organic chemistry. By virtue of their inherent convergence and high productivity, together with their exploratory and complexity-generating power, MCRs have naturally become a rapidly evolving field of research and have attracted the attention of both academic and industrial scientists.The literature of multicomponent reactions is extremely wide but I do hope that these four reviews piled up in the issue will supply new and relevant information for many chemists working in the field of synthetic organic chemistry.