Austin reported that nitrofurazone can be reduced to a glyoxylopropionitrile by means of a reductive fission: a similar but different reductive fission of nitrofurans has also been reported elsewhere. This led Cisak et al., to study the reactivity of 5-nitrofurfural in alkaline and acidic solutions. In stark contrast to the aforementioned reported reactivity of 5-nitrofufural in alkaline solutions, almost invariably all the previously reported procedures for synthesis of hydrazone 1 have been conducted in highly alkaline hydrazine hydrate in methanolic solutions (Scheme 1). For though Li et al. reported that a purum sample of 1 was obtained via a modified literature procedure (loc. cit.) the particulars of which was never disclosed, it was not feasible to reproduce such findings in this work. To this end, and in accordance with the aforementioned inferential rationale for highly impure and somewhat yellow in colour (vide infra) polymeric samples of 1 which were phenomenologically obtained via the previously reported procedures, a highly versatile and relatively anhydrous method for synthesis of 1 and its derivatives was devised.