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Cover Picture: The Exciting Chemistry of Tetraazidomethane (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 7/2007)
Author(s) -
Banert Klaus,
Joo YoungHyuk,
Rüffer Tobias,
Walfort Bernhard,
Lang Heinrich
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200790019
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , explosive material , chemistry , polymer science , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering
Not only as an explosive but also in its sometimes surprising reactions, tetraazidomethane proves to be an exciting substance. As shown in the cover picture, the compound can be synthesized from commercially available trichloroacetonitrile in one step, isolated by preparative gas chromatography as a limpid liquid, and characterized by its 15 N NMR spectrum measured with natural isotopic abundance. Although a simple trapping product is formed in the presence of cyclooctyne, tetraazidomethane undergoes a more complex transformation with norbornene. Further reactions are described by K. Banert et al. in their Communication on page 1168 ff.