KEITH D. GALLICANO and NORMAN L. PADDOCK. Can. J. Chem. 60.521 (1982). The chlorophosphazenes (NPCI,),+, and the phenylchlorophosphazenes gern-N3P3Ph4CI2 and gem-N3P3Ph2C14 react with pyrazole, 3-methylpyrazole, and 3,5-dimethylpyrazole to give (NPpz,),-,, [NP(Mepz),],+,, [NP(Me,pz),],,,, N,P,Ph,(Mepz),, N3P,Ph,(Me2pz),, and N3P,Ph2(Me2pz),. Infrared and nmr spectroscopy show the pyrazolyl group to be an electron-withdraw~ng substituent on the phosphazene ring. resembling a halogen rather than an amino-group. The pyrazolyl group also acts as a donor through its pyridinic nitrogen atom, both intramolecularly and in the formation of the complexes gem-N,P3Ph4(Me2pz),~PdCl2, gern-N,P3Ph2(Me2pz)4~PdC12, N,P,(Me2pz),.2PdC12. N,P,(Me2pz),~2PtC1,, and N3P3(Me,pz),.3PdC1,. No bonding between the metal and a nitrtogen atom in the ring was detected.