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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
Published on: August 22, 2018
Crystal structure of 2-azido-1H-imidazole-4,5-di-carbonitrile
G Kenneth Windler1, Brian L Scott2, Neil C Tomson2
1PO Box 1663 MS C920, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C5HN7, the nitrile and azido substituents are close to being coplanar with the central ring. Mol-ecules in the crystal are linked via an N-H⋯N hydrogen bond to a nitrile acceptor, forming a chain extending along the c-axis direction.
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