Abstract. In whatever state of bonding -whether covalent to an organic residue or a heteroatom, or polar to ionic in contact with a metal -the azide moiety N 3 is characterized by its high potential of reactivity which essentially manifests itself in two basic processes: the elimination of dinitrogen and the entry into 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with suitable dipolarophiles, the latter of which clearly predominates the chemistry of azide, also that of its metal compounds. In a preceding review entitled "Part I -Metal Azides: Overview, General Trends and Recent Developments" which was meant to lay the foundations for the present paper, these and other reactions have already been touched upon. The present review -Part II -now focusses in great detail on the formation of five-membered heterocyclestetrazol(at)es, triazol(at)es, triazolin(at)es, thiatriazol(at)es, etc. as well as various consecutive products -from azide and nitriles, isocyanides, alkynes, alkenes and heteroallenes (CS 2 , RN=C=S) in the ligand sphere of the metal. Generally, these [3+2]-cycloadditions are found to
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