“…However, the literature has been mainly concerned with end uses for this class of compound, and details of synthesis and characterization are scarce. There are many references to the synthesis of monosulfonyl azides,18–29 and some texts contain information about the synthesis of a limited number of disulfonyl azides,4, 6, 18, 30–33 although characterization has been only by melting point and elemental analysis. The aim of this article is to give an account of the syntheses of 1,6‐hexanedisulfonyl azide, 1,10‐decanedisulfonyl azide, 1,3‐benzenedisulfonyl azide, 1,5‐naphthalenedisulfonyl azide, 2,6‐naphthalenedisulfonyl azide, and 4,4′‐biphenyldisulfonyl azide from readily available starting materials and to give a full characterization of these compounds.…”