中文摘要：

咔唑及其衍生物是一类重要的含氮芳杂环化合物，具有许多独特的理化性质及生物活性，分析、归纳、总结了近5年来发表的文献，选取具有代表性的实例，并按照中间体的不同将合成方法分为四类，分别讨论了咔唑及其衍生物合成方法的进展情况，对咔唑及其衍生物成环的新方法给予重点关注．

英文摘要：

Carbazole and its derivatives are a class of important nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds possessing various unique properties and biological activity. Herein the current progress of their synthetic strategies reported in the past 5 years is reviewed. The representative examples, which have been divided into four categories according to the usage of differ- ent key intermediates, are selected and discussed in detail. Special emphasis is put on the newly developed cyclization reac- tions which may be useful for the construction of the tricyclic backbone of carbazoles.