The classic strategies for synthesizing alkoxy derivatives of nitrogen heterocycles are based on the nucleophilic substitution of good leaving groups. Among these are also nonoxidative methods occurring via a tele-mechanism. Hence heteroarenes with di-or trichloromethyl substituents react with alkoxide anions to give products of substitution of hydrogen in the ring by an alkoxy group [1][2][3][4].In the case of electron-deficient aza aromatic substrates a better alternative can be a direct oxidative nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen (ONSH [5]) by an alkoxy group since it does not need the preliminary introduction of good nucleofuges into the molecule. However, in the literature there are only individual examples of the successful alkoxylation of heterocycles via the ONSH process [6,7].In studying the reactivity of 1,3,7-triazapyrenes [8] relative to nucleophiles we unexpectedly found that they very readily undergo a double alkoxylation under unusual conditions. Reaction of 1,3,7-triazapyrene (1a) and its 2-methyl-substituted 1b with excess KOH and K 3 Fe(CN) 6 in aqueous methanol solution occurs at room temperature to give a high yield of the previously unknown 6,8-dimethoxy derivatives of this heterocycle (2a and 2b respectively). A similar reaction with 1a and ethyl or propyl alcohols gave the 6,8-diethoxy-(2c) and 6,8-dipropoxy-1,3,7-triazapyrene (2d). N N N R N N N R OR 1 1a,b R 1 OH, H 2 O KOH, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 2a-d R 1 O 2 a R = H, R 1 = Me (98%), b R = R 1 = Me (89%), c R = H, R 1 = Et (91%), d R = H, R 1 = Pr (69%)