Thiazyl trifluoride
Thiazyl trifluoride is a chemical compound of nitrogen, sulfur, and fluorine, having the formula. It exists as a stable, colourless gas, and is an important precursor to other sulfur-nitrogen-fluorine compounds. It has tetrahedral molecular geometry around the sulfur atom, and is regarded to be a prime example of a compound that has a sulfur-nitrogen triple bond.
Preparation
can be synthesised by the fluorination of thiazyl fluoride, NSF, with silver(II) fluoride, :or by the oxidative decomposition of by silver fluoride:
It is also a product of the oxidation of ammonia by [disulfur decafluoride|].
Direct fluorination of mercury difluorosulfinimide does not give thiazyl trifluoride, but instead the isomeric fluoriminosulfur difluoride.
Reactions
is much more stable than thiazyl fluoride, does not react with ammonia and hydrogen chloride, and only reacts with sodium at 400 °C. However, the fluoride ligands are labile, and can be displaced by secondary amines. Thiazyl trifluoride reacts with carbonyl fluoride in the presence of hydrogen fluoride to form pentafluorosulfanyl isocyanate.adds reversibly to give.