The exciting chemistry of tetraazidomethane

Abstract

(Chemical Equation Presented) With a nitrogen content of 93.3%, "perazidomethane(CN12) is highly explosive but nevertheless isolable. The title compound, which is accessible from commercially available trichloroacetonitrile in one step, undergoes simple dissociation and trapping reactions as well as more-complex transformations (for example, in the presence of norbornene; see scheme). © 2007 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.