A salt or compound derived from a diazo compound, where the reactive diazo group has been stabilized through ionic bonding.
From 'diazo-' plus '-ate' suffix (indicating a salt). Nomenclature developed parallel to other organic salt names in chemical literature.
Diazotates are chemists' way of 'putting a lid on' unstable diazo compounds—by converting them to salts, they become stable enough to bottle and ship to other laboratories.
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