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Molecules 2005, 10, 318-320 molecules ISSN 1420-3049 Guest Editorial Special Issue: Sulfur-Nitrogen Heterocycles Maria García-Valverde and Tomás Torroba* Department of Chemistry, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain, Tel. (+34)-947-258088, Fax (+34)-947-258087. * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: ttorroba@ubu.es Received: 15 January 2005 / Published: 28 February 2005 For more than a century, heterocycles have constituted one the largest areas of research in organic chemistry. They have contributed to the development of society from a biological and industrial point of view as well as to the understanding of life processes and to the efforts to improve the quality of life. Heterocycles play an important role in biochemical processes because the side groups of the most typical and essential constituents of living cells, DNA and RNA, are based on aromatic heterocycles [1]. Among the approximately 20 million chemical compounds identified by the end of the second millennium, more than two-thirds are fully or partially aromatic, and approximately half are heterocyclic. The presence of heterocycles in all kinds of organic compounds of interest in biology, pharmacology, optics, electronics, material sciences, and so on is very well known. Between them, sulfur and nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds have maintained the interest of researchers through decades of historical development of organic synthesis. The grounds of this interest were their biological activities and unique structures that led to several applications in different areas of pharmaceutical and agrochemical research or, more recently, in material sciences [2]. The family of sulfur–nitrogen heterocycles includes highly stable aromatic compounds that display physicochemical properties with relevance in the design of new materials, especially those relating to molecular conductors and magnets. During th