Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Science, 6(12), p. 2268-2275, 2021
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04949b
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Cyanuric triazide reacts with transition metal precursors, extruding N2 and reducing the ligand by two electrons, which breaks an aromatic ring and rearranges to a bitetrazolylmethanediiminate (biTzI2−) ligand, forming two new aromatic rings.