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Heterocycle Retrosynthesis

The reactions that form aromatic heterocycles are typically condensation reactions and can be geberalised to these simple reactions:

Pyrrole

synthpyrrole

Mechanism

Pyridine mech

Furan

synthfuran

Mechanism

Furan mech

Thiophene

synththiophene

Pyridine

synthpyridine

or to avoid using an oxidant

pyridinenoox