“…One of them, which allows 4-halocinnolines to be obtained in high yields, is the Richter-type cyclization [52] of ortho -ethynylarenediazonium salts [53] and ortho -ethynylaryltriazenes [54,55,56]. The halogen atom at C4 position can be substituted with various nucleophilic reagents, i.e., water [53], alcoholates [57,58,59], sulfides [56,58,60] and amines [58,61,62,63,64]. The only mentioned example of a 4-azidocinnoline molecule was also obtained from the corresponding chlorocinnoline by nucleophilic substitution with sodium azide in ethanol [29].…”