JACQUES POITRAS and AND& L. BEAUCHAMP. Can. J. Chem. 72, 1675Chem. 72, (1994. The reaction of NbC1, and TaC1, with 7-azaindole (Haza) at room temperature in benzene or dichloromethane yielded MCl,(Haza) addition compounds. Under more severe conditions, the same compound was obtained with TaCl,. For NbCl,, some reduction to Nb(IV) was observed and NbCI,(Haza), NbCI,(Haza),, and the (H,aza)' ion were identified in the reaction mixture by infrared spectroscopy. Oxidative coupling of two azaindole units via N7-C6 also took place during the reaction, since the 7-(azaindol-6-y1)azaindolium cation was found as counter-ion in the crystal structures of two complex salts. In the crystals of