Synthesis of heterocyclic azoxy compounds from C-nitroheterocyclic compounds and metal derivatives oftert-butylamine

The reaction of 3-nitropyrazole and 3(5)-nitro-1,2,4-triazole with t-BuNHMgBr gives the corresponding asymmetrical diazene oxides. Furthermore, 3(5)-(1,1-dimethylethyl)azoxy-1,2,4-triazole was also synthesized by the reaction of 1-trimethylsilyl-3(5)-nitro-1,2,4-triazole with t-BuNHLi.N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117913 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1653–1654, July, 1992.