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Formation of the N-N bond by exchange 583<br />

fonic acid or 2-hydroxynaphthalene-l-sulfonic acid, 256 by double-salt formation<br />

with mercury(n) chloride, 252 or by treatment of 2 moles of the diazonium<br />

salt with 1 mole of piperazine; 257 diazonium tetrafluoroborates have also<br />

often been used. 258<br />

Diamino compounds can be tetrazotized. 249d Some ring substituents in the<br />

ortho-position to the newly formed diazonium group may cyclize with it,<br />

with or without elimination of nitrogen; for instance, 1,2,3-benzotriazole is<br />

obtained in 51% yield on diazotization of 0-phenylenediamine. 259 If the orthosubstituent<br />

is a methyl group an indazole is formed. 260<br />

Two monographs deal in detail with the preparation, properties, reactions,<br />

and constitution of aromatic diazonium compounds. 249 * The diazotization of<br />

proteins has been described by Rohrlich. 261<br />

4. Preparation of azides<br />

Particular care is required when working with azides as they are unusually<br />

treacherous explosives. The tendency of any one material to explode varies<br />

from batch to batch; and, if possible, no attempt should be made to<br />

isolate azides of low molecular weight. Storage of, and reactions involving,<br />

azides should be confined to solutions of less than 10% concentration. When<br />

working with volatile azides it is essential to avoid breathing the vapors; like<br />

hydrogen azide, organic azides have, inter alia, the property of expanding<br />

the blood vessels (similarity to alkyl nitrites; danger of circulatory collapse);<br />

azidoformic esters are especially active in this respect.<br />

Only those azide syntheses are treated below that involve formation of an<br />

N-N bond, namely:<br />

(i) by the action of ammonia on diazonium perbromides: 262<br />

ArN2Br3 + NH3 > ArN3 + 3HBr (yield 55%)<br />

(ii) by reaction of hydrazines with nitrous acid: 263<br />

ArNHNH2 + HONO > ArN3 + 2H2O (yield 65-68%)<br />

(iii) from diazo compounds and hydrazine hydrate: 264<br />

ArN2X + H2NNH2 > H2O + ArN2—NHNH2 > ArN3 + NH3<br />

(yield ca. 70%)<br />

(iv) from arenediazonium salts and O-alkylhydroxylamines: 265<br />

ArN2Cl + RONH2 • ArN3 + ROH + HC1 (yield good)<br />

256 N. Kornblum, Org. Reactions, 2, 285 (1944).<br />

257 P. I. Drumm and co-workers, Sci. Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc, 22, 223 (1940).<br />

258 G. Schiemann and W. Winkelmiiller, Org. Syn., Coll. Vol. II, 188,225 (1943); A. Wayne<br />

and co-workers, /. Amer. Chem. Soc, 64, 828 (1942).<br />

259 R. E. Darmschroder and W. D. Peterson, Org. Syn., Coll. Vol. Ill, 106 (1955).<br />

260 H. D. Porter and W. D. Peterson, Org. Syn., Coll. Vol. Ill, 660 (1955).<br />

261 M. Rohrlich, Chemiker-Ztg., 80, 847 (1956).<br />

262 K. Clusius and H. Hiirzeler, Helv. Chim. Acta, 37, 383 (1954).<br />

263 R. O. Lindsay and C. F. H. Allen, Org. Syn., Coll. Vol. Ill, 710 (1955).<br />

264 C. K. Banks and O. M. Gruhzit, /. Amer. Chem. Soc, 70, 1268 (1948).<br />

265 A. B. Boese and co-workers, /. Amer. Chem. Soc, 53, 3530 (1931).

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