Trinitrogen Fluoride

Other names Fluorine azide, azidium fluoride CAS Registry Number [14986-60-8] 

Dehnicke, The Chemistry of The Halogen Azides, Advan. Inorg. Chem. Radiochem. 26 [1983] 169/200. 

Dehnicke, Reaktionen der Halogenazide, Angew. Chem. 79 [1967] 253/9 Angew. Chem. Intern. Ed. Engl. 6 [1967] 240/6. 

Pankratov, Chemistry of Some Inorganic Nitrogen Fluorides, Usp. Khim. 32 [1963] 336/53 Russ. Chem. Rev. 32 [1963] 157/65, 163. 

The commonly used name, fluorine azide, is used in this text. 

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Dinitrogen difluoride has been known since 1942 when it was detected as a product of the thermal decomposition of trinitrogen fluoride. Most methods of preparation yield a mixture of cis- and trans-N2F2 which can be separated. 

Only a few studies have been carried out with the highly explosive trinitrogen fluoride since its first preparation in 1942. 

The systematic names of the binary fluorine-nitrogen compounds are only used for a few substances, whereas the organic substitutional type of nomenclature is widely used. Thus, NF3 is called by its systematic name nitrogen trifluoride (and not trifluoroamine), but N2F4 is generally named tetrafluorohydrazine instead of dinitrogen tetrafluoride and N3F fluorine azide instead of trinitrogen fluoride. Subsequently, there are sometimes up to three names for... 

The second part Fluorine and Nitrogen deals with the binary fluorine-nitrogen compounds. They are subdivided on the basis of the number of nitrogen atoms per molecule. Thus, species such as NFJ, NF3, NF2, and NF are considered first followed by the dinitrogen and trinitrogen fluorides N2F4, N2F2, and N3F and related ions. 

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