Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the translocation of heteroatoms in heterocyclic rings and its role in ring transformation of heterocycles in dimorth rearrangement. The Dimroth rearrangement is an isomerization process whereby exoand endocyclic heteroatoms are translocated on a heterocyclic ring. It is also considered to be amidine rearrangement. This rearrangement may be classified into two main types. The translocation of heteroatoms in the first type can be between two rings of a fused system by three possible pathways: (1) an exocyclic heteroatom of a ring becomes endocyclic, (2) a heteroatom in a five-membered ring changes its location on the other ring, or (3) one of the heteroatoms of a five-membered ring becomes a substituent on the other ring and the other two heteroatoms of the same ring become a part of another five-membered ring on cyclization. The second major type involves the translocation of exo- and endocyclic heteroatoms on a single heterocyclic ring, an exoannular rearrangement, the mechanism of which has been studied since the early work on the subject. The rearrangement led to a translocation of the starred heteroatom. The Dimroth rearrangement can be catalyzed by alkali, acid, heat, or light.