The utility of diazo compounds as intermediates in preparative organic chemistry has proven of great valuea2 Conversion of diazo compounds to halocarbons is a long known process dating back to nearly a century ago when Curtius reported the reaction between diazo compounds and hydrogen halide^.^" Subsequently, considerable attention has been focused on the halogenation of various diazo substrate with both hydrogen halides and ...
[Chambers, Richard D.; Hutchinson, John; Batsanov, Andrei S.; Lehmann, Christian W.; Naumov, Dimitrii Y. Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1996 , # 18 p. 2271 - 2275]