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The unique properties of diethylaluminium azide – arising from the Lewis acid aluminium and the nucleophilicity of the azide – make it a versatile reagent in organic synthesis. Ring-opening of epoxides, Michael-type additions, synthesis of acyl azides, and functionalizations of fullerene C60 will be discussed. Among the recently described uses of the reagent, particular attention will be devoted to the powerful Sedelmeier’s method to access 1H-tetrazol starting from nitriles.

Vittorio Pace received a degree in Pharmacy from theUniversity of Perugia (Italy) in 2005 and anMSc inDrugDesign andDevelopment from theUniversity of Pavia (Italy) in 2008. He obtained a PhD in Chemistry under the guidance of Professor A. R. Alcantara at the Complutense University of Madrid (2010). He then undertook postdoctoral training at the University of Vienna (Austria) with Professor W. Holzer and at the University of Manchester (UK) with Professor D. J. Procter. In October 2013, he moved to the University of Stockholm (Sweden) for a third postdoctoral position with Professor B. Olofsson.

Vittorio Pace received a degree in pharmacy from the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2005 and aM.Sc. in drug design and development from the University of Pavia (Italy) in 2008. He obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry under the guidance of Professor A. R. Alcantara at the Complutense University of Madrid (2010). He then moved to the University of Vienna (Austria) as a postdoctoral Ernst Mach fellow with Professor W. Holzer and from September 2011 joined the group of Professor D. Procter at the University of Manchester (UK) for a second postdoctoral position.