Takashi Itoh, Yûji Matsuya, Kazuhiro Nagata, Michiko Miyazaki, Nozomi Tsutsumi and Akio Ohsawa
Pyridazines have been allowed to react with tetracyanoethylene oxide to give pyridazinium N-dicyanomethylides, which are subjected to vicarious nucleophilic substitution to afford the corresponding 4-substituted derivatives in moderate to good yields. The dicyanomethylene group is readily eliminated by a radical reaction, and 4-substituted pyridazines are obtained.