Why Tetrazines Are Important To Chemistry

By Deborah Price


Not all people has the interest when it comes to the subject chemistry. Somehow, not everyone has the curiosity to go and dig deeper about all the compound elements and materials that are present especially on things and products that are eventually used on a daily basis. One topic that lights up curiosity to chemists out there is the study of Tetrazine. What makes it worth it to study for is that it is found to be an application for conjugation tags on materials connected to chemistry.

They are basically said to be unstable than most of the compounds that have been discovered over the time. Its whole structure is made up of an atomic rings that has six members and is containing four nitrogen atoms. The name was used for the nomenclature of derivatives of the same exact compound.

This was discovered way back the nineteenth century and its very first synthesis was discovered by Pinner. Right after its discovery, few several groups have had focused on this compound and continue studying it. However, on the present state of chemistry and this subject there only were just three main purpose where it had trigger the attention to the research.

The first one is the preparation of the molecules that are tailored and its implication to the inverse Diels Alder reaction. Next was the nitrogen content molecule it has that can be used as explosive materials. And the last was its preparation on the dipyridyl Stetrazines and the rest of molecules that is related to its coordination on chemistry.

Tetrazines are broken down into three structures that are considered to be of different systems. They are known as Vtetrazines, AStetrazines and Stetrazines. These three actually has its own characteristics that makes them widely unique from each other.

Out of these three, the AStetrazine is the one that is studied the least. There were only few scientists that had the courage to focus on this structure, maybe because there were only few interesting thing that was seen in it. Over the past decades, there were only two synthesis that was published which had focused on it and recently, not even a single component from this structure have been mentioned at all.

Now, out of the three system tetrazines have, the AStetrazines is something that is studied the least. There were no recent researches that have had mentioned any compound that may be from this structure. From the year being of nineteen seventy four, there were only two publications that have appeared which dealt with the said structure.

On the contrary, the Stetrazines are pretty much the one that have been focused most. Its structure is the one that is commonly used to areas of chemistry and to be exact, it is the energetic chemistry. There are two pyridine substituents that is consisting this said structure and this also is the most important reagent to the Diels Alder reactions.

Though, there are plenty of chemists who have had their share of interest on this and had tried their luck on some experiments as well as researches, the publication says otherwise. Over the years, there were just three hundred publication that described tetrazines and the rest of its components. However, there may just be some breakthrough about this on the future.




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