Chapter 5

Hydrazine and its Derivatives

Marcus Vinícius Nora de Souza

Abstract

The chemical hydrazine (NH2NH2) and its derivatives have several applications being also responsible for a large number of chemical transformations. This class has applications as rocket fuel and being present in the composition of explosives, in the control of corrosion, and the area of polymers. They also have full use in the development of bioactive substances being of great importance in medicinal chemistry. In the exercises of this chapter, we can synthesize several rings using hydrazine and its derivatives, and it is up to the readers to identify them.

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