Abstract
Aryltriazenes have emerged as highly powerful and versatile building blocks in a variety of synthetic transformations, which attracted extensive attentions due to their advantages of good reactivity, well stability, ready availability, operational simplicity and diverse transformation. In this review, we summarize the current progresses involving aryltriazenes as starting materials or active intermediates for various synthetically useful applications via C-N/N-N bond cleavage.
Keywords: Aryltriazenes, Carbon-Carbon/Hetero-atom Bond Formation, C-N/N-N Bond Cleavage, Organic Synthesis.
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