Nitroamine



In organic and inorganic chemistry, nitroamines or nitramides are chemical compounds with the general chemical structure R^{1}R^{2}N\sNO2. They consist of a nitro group (\sNO2) bonded to the nitrogen of an amine. The R groups can be any group, typically hydrogen (e.g., methylnitroamine CH3\sNH\sNO2) and organyl (e.g., diethylnitroamine (CH3CH2\s)2N\sNO2). An example of inorganic nitroamine is chloronitroamine or chloro(nitro)amine Cl\sNH\sNO2. The parent inorganic compound, where both R substituents are hydrogen, is nitramide or nitroamine, H2N\sNO2.