This book is designed to collect and review the research covering main
directions in investigations of aromatic nitroso compounds in last
decades, and to present both, the academic aspects of this chemistry, as
well as the open field of its applicability. The book is divided in five
chapters. The basic structural properties of the nitroso aromatic
molecules are described in the first chapter. The second chapter is an
overview of the methods of preparations of aromatic nitroso and
polynitroso compounds, including classical synthetic methods and some
new preparative approaches. The third part deals with the
physico-chemical properties of nitroso aromates and azodioxides, its
structure, crystallography, quantum chemical calculations, spectroscopy,
typical reactions, and especially it is focused on the dimerizations in
the solid-state. In the fourth chapter is represented organometallic
chemistry of nitroso aromatic molecules and its applications in
catalysis. The last part of the book deals with the behavior of this
class of compounds in the biological systems, reactions with
biomolecules and the use in toxicology.