Diazo compounds play an important role as reaction intermediates and reagents in organic synthesis. This book is a critical, well- referenced and eminently readable introduction to the chemistry of aliphatic, inorganic and organometallic diazo compounds. It provides well-researched information that could otherwise be obtained only by costly and time-consuming searches of multi-volume treatises and the original literature.

Topics covered in depth include:
- preparation and structure of diazo compounds
- kinetics and mechanism of diazotizations
- reactions of diazo compounds
- applications in organic synthesis
- metal complexes with diazonium and diazo compounds

Many tables and reaction schemes as well as copious literature citations make this book a highly valuable reference work for synthetic organic chemists, inorganic chemists, organometallic chemists and industrial chemists.

Already available: Volume 1 of Diazo Chemistry covering aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds.