Organic azides have been exploited since their discovery because of their high reactivities. Various organic reactions using azides have been synthetically applied in chemical biology pharmaceuticals medicinal and agricultural areas. In this review we present some recent applications and developments of organic azides in the total synthesis of natural products (mostly within five years) especially alkaloids. We focus not only on application examples of organic azides but also show their preparation methods including recently reported procedures concerning their decomposing and reducing methods in the syntheses of bioactive molecules.
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