1. Introduction to the energetics and thermochemical aspects of polynitrogen species 1Suzanne W. Slayden, Alexander Greer, and Joel F. Liebman2. Stable hydrazyls and push-pull (capto-dative) aminyl free radicals 17Alexandru T. Balaban3. New combinations of organic azides and adjacent functional groups 27Klaus Banert4. Bridged azobenzenes and their chemical applications 65David J. Warner, Katie S. Keane, and Silas C. Blackstock5. Click chemistry and nitrogen-containing heterocycles formed in surface functionalization reactions 115Yuan Chen, Hao Fan, and Elena Galoppini6. Triplet vinylnitrenes 161Upasana Banerjee, Kosala Thenna-Hewa, and Anna D. Gudmundsdottir7. Nitrogen catenation: polyazoles and polyazines 199Peter Politzer and Jane S. Murray8. N-Oxides of polyazoles and polyazines 231Peter Politzer and Jane S. Murray9. Bridged azobenzenes and their biological applications 251David J. Warner, Katie S. Keane, Carl Jacky Saint-Louis, and Silas C. Blackstock10. Thermochemical insights on small nitrogen heterocyclic compounds 287Vera L. S. Freitas and Maria D. M. C. Ribeiro da Silva11. Some thermochemical aspects of acyclic polynitrogen species 329Suzanne W. Slayden, Alexander Greer, and Joel F. Liebman12. The Brønsted acid/base character of the N.N and N=N bonds 357John E. BartmessSubject index 385
Professor Alexander Greer, Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, New York, USA.Professor Joel F. Liebman, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland (UMBC), Baltimore, USA.