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[For the entire collection Zbl 0745.00066.] The author considers a class of iterated skew polynomial rings which include \(U({\mathfrak sl}_ 2)\) and \(U_ q({\mathfrak sl}_ 2)\). To construct an algebra in this class one begins with \(A\) a commutative, finitely generated domain over \(k\) a field of characteristic zero, an automorphism \(\alpha\in \text{Aut}_ kA\), and an element \(u \in A\) with \(u\neq \alpha(u)\). Finally, \(R\) is the skew polynomial ring \(R = A[x,y]\) where \(ya = \alpha(a)y\), \(xa = \alpha^{-1}(a)x\), for \(a\in A\) and \(xy - yx = u-\alpha(u)\). Many of the results are in the case when \(A\) is \(\alpha\)- simple of dimension one. The author generalizes to \(R\) (and primitive factors) some known results about the Krull and global dimensions of \(U({\mathfrak sl}_ 2)\) (and primitive factors) such as: \(\text{Kdim} U({\mathfrak sl}_ 2) = 2\), \(\text{Kdim} U({\mathfrak sl}_ 2)/(\Omega - \lambda) = 1\), and \(\text{gldim} U({\mathfrak sl}_ 2)/(\Omega - \lambda) \in \{1,2,\infty\}\), for \(\lambda \in \mathbb{C}\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0745.00066].