“…Reactions conducted in diethyl ether at room temperature gave a mixture of regioisomeric 1-aryl-4-nitro-5-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carbonitriles (3a,b) and 1-aryl-5-nitro-4-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,3-triazole-5-carbonitriles (5a,b). Finally, 1-aryl-5(4)-phenyl-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4(5)-carbonitriles (4a,b, 6a,b) (Table 1) were formed as a result of spontaneous nitrous acid extrusion from primary [2,3] cycloaddition products [7]. Piet et al [12] also deal with the [2+3] cycloaddition reactions of PCN (1) with phenylazide (2a) and methylazide (7).…”