Diazo Chemistry

Volume 1: Methods for the preparation of aromatic and heteroaromatic diazo compounds; kinetics and mechanism of diazotization; the structure of diazonium compounds; acid-base and isomerization reactions of diazo compounds in water; additions of other nucleophiles to arenediazonium ions; structural and mechanistic aspects of additions of nucleophiles to diazonium ions; dediazoniation of arenediazonium ions; logic, psychology and serendipity of scientific discoveries - an interlude; applications of heterolytic and homolytic dediazoniations in organic syntheses; host-guest complexation of arenediazonium salts; azo coupling reactions; formation and reactions of triazenes. Volume 2: Methods for the preparation of alkane, akkene and alkyne diazo compounds; inorganic and metalorganic analogues of diazo compounds; kinetics and mechanism of aliphatic diazotizations; the structure of aliphatic diazo compounds; reactions of aliphatic diazo and diazonium compounds not involving initial dediazoniation; dediazoniation reactions involving diazonium ion intermediates; dediazoniation reactions involving carbene and carbenoid intermediates; miscellaneous reactions involving diazo and related compounds; metal complexes of diazonium and diazo compounds. (Part contents).