Organic azide
Organic compounds containing the azide (N3) functional group / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An organic azide is an organic compound that contains an azide (–N3) functional group.[1] Because of the hazards associated with their use, few azides are used commercially although they exhibit interesting reactivity for researchers. Low molecular weight azides are considered especially hazardous and are avoided. In the research laboratory, azides are precursors to amines. They are also popular for their participation in the "click reaction" between an azide and an alkyne and in Staudinger ligation. These two reactions are generally quite reliable, lending themselves to combinatorial chemistry.