“…The behavior of furoxans on reduction by hydroxylamine (68, 158, 177, 237), hydrazine (57), hydrogen, ammonium sulfide, phosphorus sulfides (4, 90,192), sulfur dioxide and thionyl chloride (33,226), phosphorus and sodium (18, 189), phosphorus pentachloride (4, 142, 235), and hydrogen iodide (18, 62) is much like that described for zinc and stannous chloride in that the specific furoxans plus the specific conditions will determine whether a reaction occurs or whether the product is a furazan, an amine, a dioxime, or a decomposition product. Although a definitive study has yet to be made, reduction by zinc or hydroxylamine will, in general, result in the formation of dioximes and not furazans, while reductions by the other agents described will result in furazans and not dioximes.…”