This section provides an overview for diazoniums as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 2 diazonium manufacturers and their company rankings.
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Diazonium is a general term for nitrogen compounds with an NN triple bond in the molecule. Since this functional group is a monovalent cation, ordinary diazonium compounds exist as diazonium salts, and furthermore, since they contain a triple bond in their molecules, they are highly reactive. The isolate is also known to be explosive. Therefore, it is usually used in solution in a synthesized reaction system without isolation.
It can be stabilized by using an aryl group with an electron-withdrawing group as a substrate and tetrafluoroboron (BF3) as an anion. An example of this is commercially available p-Morpholinobenzenediazonium Tetrafluoroborate.
Since diazonium has a highly reactive NN triple bond in its molecule, it is almost never used by itself, but rather as a reaction intermediate.
Many reactions using diazo groups are known, and frequently used examples include aromatic substitution reactions such as the Sandmeyer reaction and diazo coupling.
These reactions are used in the synthesis of various pharmaceuticals and functional materials, and one particularly famous example is the synthesis of azo dyes. Azo dyes are a general term for dyes with an azo group in their structure, and are obtained by coupling reactions between diazonium and phenols or aromatic amines.
It is said that more than half of synthetic dyes belong to azo dyes, which are very important compounds industrially.
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Toronto Research Chemicals Inc., founded in 1982 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a manufacturer of biochemicals and is a subsidiary of LGC Standards. The ISO 9001-certified company has an extensive catalog of over 350,000 products, including metabolites, impurities, and natural products APIs, which are used in several applications like environmental analysis, forensic science, and medicinal R&D. The company supports the scientific community across more than 120 countries and has 19 production laboratories. In 2019, it was bought by LGC, which provides components to customers in the pharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, and food markets, among others.
Millipore Sigma, formerly known as Sigma-Aldrich, was created in 175 through the merger of Sigma Chemical Company and Aldrich Chemical company and today is a subsidiary of Merck. Millipore Sigma is a life science and biotechnology company serving the industry with several products and services. Some of their product categories include peptide synthesis materials, biochemicals, building blocks, catalysts, chemical biology, chemical synthesis, flavors & fragrances, formulation, lab chemicals, lab safety, APIs, and stable isotopes. Services include characterization, contract manufacturing, custom products, software, support, testing, and mRNA development & manufacturing.
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