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As is well known, the chemical evidence regarding the structure of the azides is far from being unambiguous, and four formulæ have been proposed,1,2,3 Of these, 2 is ruled out because the central nitrogen atom would have a shared decet of valency electrons, which, for an element in the first short period, is impossible.
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SUTTON, L. Structure of the Azides, from their Electric Dipole Moments. Nature 128, 639 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128639a0
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