88394-66-5

Basic information

• Product Name: N-azidomethyl-N,N-dimethylamine
• Synonyms: N-azidomethyl-N,N-dimethylamine
• CAS NO: 88394-66-5
• Molecular Weight: 100.123
• Mol File: 88394-66-5.mol
• Article Data: 1

Chemical Properties

• CAS DataBase Reference: N-azidomethyl-N,N-dimethylamine(CAS DataBase Reference)
• NIST Chemistry Reference: N-azidomethyl-N,N-dimethylamine(88394-66-5)
• EPA Substance Registry System: N-azidomethyl-N,N-dimethylamine(88394-66-5)

Safety Data

• Hazardous Substances Data: 88394-66-5(Hazardous Substances Data)

Upstream product

• 1761-67-7 N-methylmethanimine 
• 32649-51-7 dimethylammonium azide 

Relevant articles and documents

Too Short-Lived or Not Existing Species: N-Azidoamines Reinvestigated

Treatment of N-chlorodimethylamine with sodium azide in dichloromethane does not lead to N-azidodimethylamine, as thought for more than 50 years. Instead, surprisingly, (azidomethyl)dimethylamine is generated with good reproducibility. A plausible reaction mechanism to explain the formation of this product is presented. The reaction of lithium dibenzylhydrazide with tosyl azide does not result in the creation of an N-azidoamine, which can be detected by IR spectroscopy at ambient temperature, as it was claimed previously. Additional experiments with diazo group transfer to lithium hydrazides show that intermediate N-azidoamines are very short-lived or their formation is bypassed by direct generation of 1,1-diazenes via synchronous cleavage of two N-N bonds.