Nitroamine

Not to be confused with Nitrosamine.

In organic and inorganic chemistry, nitroamines or nitramides are chemical compounds with the general chemical structure R¹R²N−NO₂. They consist of a nitro group (−NO₂) bonded to the nitrogen of an amine.^[1][2] The R groups can be any group, typically hydrogen (e.g., methylnitroamine CH₃−NH−NO₂) and organyl (e.g., diethylnitroamine (CH₃CH₂−)₂N−NO₂). An example of inorganic nitroamine is chloronitroamine or chloro(nitro)amine Cl−NH−NO₂.^[3] The parent inorganic compound, where both R substituents are hydrogen, is nitramide or nitroamine, H₂N−NO₂.

Structure of the nitroamino group, >N−NO₂, here bonded to two R groups

References

1. Clayden, J.; Greeves, N.; Warren, S.; Wothers, P. (2001). Organic Chemistry. Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850346-6.
2. Smith, Michael B.; March, Jerry (2007), Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure (6th ed.), New York: Wiley-Interscience, ISBN 978-0-471-72091-1
3. "N-chloronitramide".