Roundabout rearrangements of element-centered cycloheptatriene derivatives up till now have been subject only of occasional studies. Among them have been revealed migrations of iso (thio, seleno) cyanato [1, 2], azido [3], thio [436] groups and chlorine [7] in the cycloheptatriene ring. Aiming at investigation of new rearrangements of N-centered groups in the cycloheptatriene system we prepared N-cycloheptatrienylphthalimide and studied ...