Advances in the Study of the Chichibabin Reaction

The state of research into one of the most important reactions of heterocyclic compounds — their amination by sodium amide (the Chichibabin reaction) — is described. The mechanism of the reaction, its application to specific classes of nitrogen-containing heterocycles, and certain reactions related to the Chichibabin reaction, namely amination of heterocycles by organic derivatives of metal amides, substitutional amination with elimination of hydrocarbon groups, amination of N-heteroaromatic cations, and hydrazination and hydroxylation, are discussed. The bibliography includes 235 references.