“…4-(2-Pyridylazo)resorcinol (PAR, 4), available in the form of sodium salt monohydrate, has long been actively used in analytical chemistry as a non-selective tridentate complexing agent for the extraction and concentration of heavy metal ions, as a metallochromic indicator for complexometric titration, reagent for the photometric determination of analytes (for reviews, see [19][20][21][22][23]). In recent years, PAR has been actively used to create optical sensors and test materials for the determination and extraction of heavy metals [24][25][26][27], spectrophotometric analysis of transition metals in catalysts [28], extraction of Rh 3+ [29], Ga 3+ [30], Ir 4+ [31], and Co 2+ ions [32], obtaining charge-transfer complexes with aromatic nitro compounds [33], etc. However, as far as we know, 4-(2-pyridylazo)resorcinol has not yet been used as a reagent for fine organic synthesis.…”