Small is beautiful: spectroscopic proof or any other indication for the existence of formyl azide (HC(O)N3) has until now been lacking. Although it liberates dinitrogen much more rapidly than homologous acyl azides, it has been prepared for the first time by four different methods (see scheme).
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