E Diazo compounds and diazirines

Loss of nitrogen from these aziridines occurs on photolysis and pyrolysis, and a number of the subsequent reactions have been formulated as reactions of the carbenes F2C and (CF3)2C , which have also been discussed earlier see Chapter 6, Section IIIA. 

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