Sulfamide

Sulfamide[1]
Ball-and-stick model of the sulfamide molecule
Names
IUPAC name
Sulfuric diamide
Preferred IUPAC name
Sulfamide
Other names
Sulphamide
Sulfuryl amide
Identifiers
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UNII
  • InChI=1S/H4N2O2S/c1-5(2,3)4/h(H4,1,2,3,4) checkY
    Key: NVBFHJWHLNUMCV-UHFFFAOYSA-N checkY
  • InChI=1/H4N2O2S/c1-5(2,3)4/h(H4,1,2,3,4)
    Key: NVBFHJWHLNUMCV-UHFFFAOYAV
  • O=S(=O)(N)N
Properties
H4N2O2S
Molar mass 96.11 g/mol
Appearance White orthorhombic plates
Melting point 93 °C (199 °F; 366 K)
Boiling point 250 °C (482 °F; 523 K) (decomposes)
Freely soluble
-44.4×10−6 cm3/mol
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Sulfamide (IUPAC name: sulfuric diamide) is a compound with the chemical formula SO2(NH2)2 and structure H2N−S(=O)2−NH2. Sulfamide is produced by the reaction of sulfuryl chloride with ammonia. Sulfamide was first prepared in 1838 by the French chemist Henri Victor Regnault.[2]

  1. ^ Merck Index, 11th Edition, 8894.
  2. ^ Regnault, Victor (1838) "Sur l'acide chlorosulfurique et la sulfamide" (On sulfuryl chloride and sulfamide), Annales de chimie et de physique, series 2, 69 : 170-184; see especially "Action de gaz ammoniac sec sur la liqueur chlorosulfurique" (Action of dry ammonia gas on liquid sulfuryl chloride), pages 176-180.