oxidatively generated aziridino-nitrene 12c to cyclohexene, methyl acrylate, and dimethylsulfoxide were without success.Heating the 1,2-bisaziridino-diazenes 20 and 21 at their respective m.p. temperatures caused thermal fragmentation to occur with evolution of nitrogen. The bisaziridines 26 and 28 as well as the aziridines 27 and 29, respectively, were isolated. These products could be the result of a radical pathway, whereas a small amount of (Z)-cyclooctene, also generated in the thermolysis of 21, might be formed by a competing cheletropic pathway.The 'H-NMR.-spectra of the derivatives of cis-9-azabicyclo [6.1 .O]nonane, namely of 12a, 12b, 21, 28 and 29, showed signals for some of the aliphatic protons which were separated from the others at relatively low field (around 2.5.-1.8 ppin). These signals accounted for 4 (with 12b for 2) protons in each of the cis-9-azabicyclo[6.l.O]nonane subunits, i.e. more than the 2 expected for the aziridine methine protons. The additional signals must be assigned to methylene protons (2 or even 4 of them) probably situated on the other side of the eight membered ring and deshielded by the motion-average proximity to the aziridine nitrogen atom. Schema 2 Pb(OAc),H o-CgHq(C0)2 N-N H2 -O -C~H~( C O )~N -No-C6H4(C0)2N--N 5 6 7 4, uber analog zu Koch & Fuhr [16] ausgefiihrte Versuche zur Reaktion von Aziridino-nitrenen mit Azodicarbonylverbindungen sol1 spater berichtet werden.