the development of azo compounds in general.

Alkyl azo compounds

Aliphatic azo compounds (R and/or R´ = aliphatic) are less commonly encountered than the aryl azo compounds. A commercially important alkyl azo compound is azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN), which is widely used as an initiator in free-radical polymerizations and other radical-induced reactions. It achieves this initiation by decomposition,

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