Most Current State-of-the-art Overview Of This Important Class Of Compounds, Encompassing Many New And Emerging Applicationsthe Number Of Articles On Organic Azides Continues To Increase Tremendously; On Average, There Are More Than 1000 New Publications A Yearcovers Basic Chemistry As Well As State-of-the-art Applications In Life Science And Materials Scienceworld-ranked Authors Describe Their Own Research In The Wider Context Of Azide Chemistryincludes A Chapter On Safe Synthesis And Handling (azides Can Decompose Explosively). 1. Lab-scale Synthesis Of Azido Compounds: Safety Measures And Analysis / Thomas Keicher And Stefan LΓΆbbecke -- 2. Large-scale Preparation And Usage Of Azides / JΓΌrgen Haase -- 3. Synthesis Of Azides / Teresa M.v.d. Pinho E Melo -- 4. Azides By Olefin Hydroazidation Reactions / JΓ©rΓ΄me Waser And Erick M. Carreira -- 5. The Chemistry Of Vinyl, Allenyl, And Ethynyl Azides / Klaus Banert -- 6. Small Rings By Azide Chemistry / Thomas L. Gilchrist -- 7. Schmidt Rearrangement Reactions With Alkyl Azides / Scott Grecian And Jeffrey AubΓ© -- 8. Radical Chemistry With Azides / Ciril Jimeno And Philippe Renaud -- 9. Cycloaddition Reactions With Azides: An Overview / Christine Schilling, Nicole Jung And Stefan BrΓ€se -- 10. Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions In Peptide Chemistry / Christian Wenzel TornΓΈe And Morten Meldal -- 11. Photochemistry Of Azides: The Azide/nitrene Interface / Nina Gritsan And Matthew Platz -- 12. Organoazides And Transition Metals / Werner R. Thiel -- 13. Azide-containing High Energy Materials / Thomas M. KlapΓΆtke And Burkhard Krumm -- 14. Azide Chemistry In Rotaxane And Catenane Synthesis / StΓ©phanie Durot ... [et Al] -- 15. Aza-wittig Reaction In Natural Product Syntheses / Francisco Palacios ... [et Al] -- 16. Azides In Carbohydrate Chemistry / Henning S.g. Beckmann And Valentin Wittmann. Editors, Stefan BrΓ€se, Klaus Banert. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.