“…Thed riving force for the azido-group transfer reaction involving TMSÀN 3 and fluorides arises primarily from the unusually high dissociation energy of covalent SiÀFb onds. [1a,c,d] Similart oo rganic azides, tin azides undergo N 2 elimination reactions with phosphines to yield phosphinimines, and cycloaddition reactions with alkynes and nitrilest oa fford triazoles and tetrazoles, [13] which so far precluded preparation/isolation of charge-neutral, nitrogenrich tin compounds such as Sn(N 3 ) 4 .W hilst tin polyazides of the types [Sn(N 3 ) 6 ] 2À , [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] [SnMe 2 (N 3 ) 4 ] 2À , [26] [SnF m (N 3 ) n ] 2À , m + n = 6, [27] SnCl 2 (N 3 ) 2[28] and [SnCl 4 (N 3 ) 2 ] 2À [29] have been known for some time, charge-neutral, nitrogen-rich tin complexes including Sn(N 3 ) 4 have not been reported. Early insight into the structure and bonding in poly(azido)stannate(IV) complexes was basedo nv ibrational, [15][16][17] Mçssbauer, [19,20] 14 NNMR [21] and 119 Sn NMR [30] spectroscopies.…”