Halo cyanides, amination

Many other examples are known of non-selective reactions of halo groups in pyridopyridazines with amines, alkoxides, sulfur nucleophiles such as hydrosulfide and thiolate ions, or thiourea, hydrazine(s), cyanide ion and dimethyl sulfoxide, or on catalytic reduction. 

For the in situ preparation of the required arenediazonium salt from an aryl amine by application of the diazotization reaction, an acid HX is used, that corresponds to the halo substituent X to be introduced onto the aromatic ring. Otherwise—e.g. when using HCl/CuBr—a mixture of aryl chloride and aryl bromide will be obtained. The copper-(l) salt 2 (chloride or bromide) is usually prepared by dissolving the appropriate sodium halide in an aqueous solution of copper-(ll) sulfate and then adding sodium hydrogensulfite to reduce copper-(ll) to copper-(1). Copper-(l) cyanide CuCN can be obtained by treatment of copper-(l) chloride with sodium cyanide. 

Halo-l-methyl-l,2,3-triazoles undergo substitution reactions with amines, but the 4-halo analogues do not. 5-Chloro-1,4,-diphenyl-1,2,3-triazole with sodium cyanide in DMSO gives the cyano derivative (63JCS2032). 1-Substituted 3-chloro- and 5-chloro-l,2,4-triazoles both react with amines. 

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