“…First, using compound 4 we attempted to perform the most characteristic reactions of diazo ketones with preservation of the azirine ring. The most useful reactions of diazo ketones are (a) the Wolff rearrangement, , (b) metal-catalyzed cyclopropanation of unsaturated compounds and insertion into C–H bonds, , (c) reaction with acids, which is a very useful method for the site-selective introduction of halogen and other heteroatomic functional groups into carbonyl compounds, , (d) reactions leading to heterocycles either via successive formation of carbene/carbenoid, ylide and its 1,3-cyclization on a carbonyl group, or 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of a diazo group to an activated CC double bond, , (e) reaction of diazo ketones with triphenylphosphane leading to azirinylphosphazines, which can be used as a method of storage of unstable diazo compounds or for their purification because the starting diazo compound can be liberated from phosphazine by reaction with methyl iodide. ,, Unexpectedly, we failed to obtain a product typical for the diazo ketone Wolff rearrangement . Only tarring of the reaction mixture was observed when compound 4a was refluxed in methanol in the presence of Ag 2 O or heated in α,α,α-trifluorotoluene in the presence of benzylamine.…”