“…Thus, when 5 was refluxed in acetic anhydride for 15 min, the original heterogeneous mixture turned into a brown solution, which, upon cooling to -20 ºC, afforded an off-white microcrystalline compound, 5-acetoxy-5H- -tetrazolo[1,5b][1,2]benziodazoles or BIAT-OAc 6, which was identified spectroscopically ( 1 H and 13 C NMR as well as ESI-HRMS), and by single-crystal X-ray crystallography (Figure 3). Tetrazoles have found significant applications in coordination chemistry, 59,76,77 photography, specialty explosives, and in drug synthesis. [78][79][80][81] The last application is due to the fact that tetrazoles are metabolically (hydrolytically) stable analogues of carboxylate esters.…”