Electrochemical Reduction of p-Nitrophenyl Azide: Evidence Consistent with the Formation of p-Nitrophenylnitrene Anion Radical as a Short-Lived Intermediate

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00301a018

The electrochemical reduction of nitrophenyl azide in DMF, acetonitrile, and butyronitrile is initially a one-electron process that affords the corresponding anion radical as a transient intermediate.Although p-O2NC6H4N3 radical anion is too short-lived t