pes - 13-3-2004 at 01:18
Today I prepared a new high energertic material SO(N3)2, can you guess what's the structure?
vulture - 13-3-2004 at 07:21
Interesting.
Would you care to elaborate on the different steps of the synthesis?
t_Pyro - 13-3-2004 at 08:47
Thionyl diazide?? If such a thing exists, my guess would be a double bond between S and O, and the azide groups attached to the sulphur atom at an
angle of 120<sup>o</sup>
If you managed to prepare such a compound, it would be extremely unstable, due to the largely covalent character of the azide bond. And two such azide
linkages to the sulphur atom? That seems like a formula worthy of decomposition "in situ", as soon as it is prepared!
What method did you use to verify that the compound you synthesized was indeed thionyl diazide?
BromicAcid - 13-3-2004 at 09:43
SOCl2 + 2(CH3)3SiN3 ---> SO(N3)2 + 2(CH3)3SiCl
Timethylsilyl Azide being a very effective compound to put the azide group on basically anything under anhydrous conditions because it is suprisingly
stable toward heat but overall quite reactive. I recently read a good rxn. with this compound that took place in CH3OCH2CH2OCH2CH2OCH3 the reason I
started the tread on symetrical polyethers.
However that's just one guess on how it could have been made.