Triazane is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula or .IUPAC Goldbook Triazane is the third simplest acyclic azane after ammonia and hydrazine. It can be synthesized from hydrazine but is unstable and cannot be isolated in the free base form, only as salt forms such as triazanium sulfate. Attempts to convert triazanium salts to the free base release only diazene and ammonia.Wiberg, Holleman & Wiberg. Inorganic Chemistry. p 627. Triazane has been stabilized as a complex ion with zeolitic silver structures. Triazane has also been synthesized in electron-irradiated ammonia ices and detected as a stable gas-phase product after sublimation.Förstel, Maksyutenko, Jones, Sun, Chen, Chang, & Kaiser. "Detection of the Elusive Triazane Molecule () in the Gas Phase", ChemPhysChem, 2015, 16, 3139.
Compounds containing the triazane skeleton Several compounds containing the triazane skeleton are known, including 1-methyl-1-nitrosohydrazine (), produced from the solventless reaction of methylhydrazine () and an alkyl nitrite (R−O−N=O):
1-Methyl-1-nitrosohydrazine is a colorless solid, sensitive to impact, but not to friction. It melts at 45 °C and decomposes at 121 °C.
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External links 1-methyl-1-nitrosohydrazine, shows structure of 1-methyl-1-nitrosohydrazine