Nitration, chlorination, bromination, and iodination reactions have been investigated for pyrazole derivatives containing a difluoromethylene fragment directly on a nitrogen atom. Conditions have been found for introducing a cyano group into the nucleus of N-2-H-tetrafluoroethylpyrazole and converting it into carboxyl or tetrazole functions.Pyrazole derivatives enter into the composition of many compounds possessing high biological activity. Several of them, containing fluorinated groupings, are used as medicinal preparations [1] and pesticides [2].Compounds containing a difluoromethylene fragment linked directly with the nitrogen atom have been little studied up to the present. Trialkylamines containing the α-difluoromethylene fragment are hydrolytically unstable [3-5] as a result of the electron-donating influence of the unshared electron pair of nitrogen. However in the case of nitrogen heterocycles such compounds are significantly more stable, since the nitrogen electron pair is involved in the π−conjugation of the heterocyclic ring. Difluoromethyl and 2H-tetrafluoroethyl derivatives of pyrrole [5], imidazole, benzimidazole [6-8], triazole, 3,5-dimethyl-, and 3-carbethoxypyrazole [9, 10] have been synthesized previously.Recently we investigated [11] the chemical properties of N-2-H-tetrafluoroethyl derivatives of pyrrole and imidazole, and found conditions for nitrating, halogenating, and acylating such compounds. As a continuation of investigations in this area we have studied the chemical properties of N-difluoromethyl and N-2H-tetrafluoroethylpyrazoles 1a-d. N N R R (CF 2 ) n H 1a-d a R = H, b R = Me, с R = H, d R = Me; a, b n = 1, c, d n = 2Difluoromethylation of pyrazole, and of 3,5-dimethylpyrazole was carried out in aqueous dioxane medium by the action of chlorodifluoromethane and alkali. N-Difluoromethylpyrazole 1a proved to be an extremely volatile compound. It forms an azeotropically boiling mixture with water and diethyl ether. It is __________________________________________________________________________________________