János Faragó, Zoltán Novák, Gitta Schlosser, Antal Csámpai, András Kotschy, Tetrahedron 2004, 60, 1991. DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2004.01.013 |

A series of tetrazines were reacted with organometallic reagents. Depending on the nature of the metal azaphilic addition, reduction of the tetrazine or simple complex formation was the predominant transformation and usually high selectivity was observed.