The employment of nitrogen Lewis acids based on nitrenium cations has been increasingly featured in the fields of main group chemistry and catalysis. A formally reduced form of nitrenium D�cyclic triazanes E�are intriguing chemical compounds, the chemistry of which is completely unexplored. In this work, we reveal that N−H-triazanes exhibit unusual N−H bond properties; namely, they can serve as protons, hydrides, or hydrogen atom donors. This unique multimodal reactivity provides an N-cation, N-anion, or N-radical from the same species. It allowed us to isolate, for the first time, a stable naphto[1,2,3]triazinyl radical, which was fully characterized both computationally and experimentally, including its monomeric X-ray structure. Moreover, this radical can be prepared directly from the nitrenium cation by a single electron reduction (E = −0.46 V), and this process is reversible. We envision versatile uses of this radical in synthetic and materials chemistry.
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