Keywords: 2-amino-4-azido-1,3,5-triazin-6(1H)-one, 2-amino-4,6-bis(trinitromethyl)-1,3,5-triazines, salts of 5-aminotetrazolo[1,5-a]-1,3,5-triazin-7-one, azido-tetrazole tautomeric conversion.Interest in the synthesis of the heterocyclic structures of 5-amino-tetrazolo[1,5-a]-1,3,5-triazin-7-ones is because they are 5,8-diaza-analogs of guanine (2-aminoimidazo[4,5-d]pyrimidin-6-one), one of the structural blocks of nucleic acids [2]. Synthetic routes developed earlier for the synthesis of the tetrazolo[1,5-a]-1,3,5-triazin-7-one structure was based on the substitution of trinitromethyl group in the tetramethyl ammonium salt of 2-hydroxy-4,6-bis(trinitromethyl)-1,3,5-triazine under the influence of the azide ion, which was accompanied by lactim-lactam and azido-tetrazole tautomeric conversions [3]. A series of derivatives of this new heterocycle were obtained on the basis of reactions of 5-trinitromethyltetrazolo[1,5-a]-1,3,5-triazin-7-ones [3,4].In contrast to [3], other means for the synthesis of salts of 5-R-tetrazolo[1,5-a]-1,3,5-triazin-7-ones are studied in this paper. Theoretically to obtain salts of 5-R-tetrazolo[1,5-a]-1,3,5-triazin-7-ones it is necessary to form the 2-R-4-azido-1,3,5-triazin-6(1H)-one 1, which on conversion into a salt should lead to a salt of 5-R-tetrazolo[1,5-a]-1,3,5-triazin-7-one 2 as a result of an azido-tetrazolo rearrangement:1 2 2-Dimethyl(diethyl)amino-4,6-bis(trinitromethyl)-1,3,5-triazines 3a,b [3] were chosen as the starting materials for the synthesis of 5-aminotetrazol[1,5-a]-1,3,5-triazin-7-ones.