Diazo compounds are remarkably versatile metal carbene precursors which participate in metal-catalyzed rearrangements, cycloadditions, XÀH (X= C, N, O, Si, S, etc.) bond insertions, and ylide-forming reactions with concomitant expulsion of N2.[1] These compounds also take part in 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of a wide range of dipolarophiles with retention of the CN2 moiety.[2] Because of their unique properties and ...
[Kornilova, Tatiana A.; Ukolov, Anton I.; Kostikov, Rafael R.; Zenkevich, Igor G. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2013 , vol. 27, # 3 p. 461 - 466]