Fluoroamine or fluoramine is a
chemical compound
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with formula . It is analogous to
monochloramine, but seldom studied. It is an unstable gas.
The term fluoroamine usually refers to amines with
fluorinated
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organyl
In organic and organometallic chemistry, an organyl group (commonly denoted by the letter " R") is an organic substituent with one (sometimes more) free valence electron(s) at a carbon atom.. The term is often used in chemical patent literatur ...
substituent
In organic chemistry, a substituent is one or a group of atoms that replaces (one or more) atoms, thereby becoming a moiety in the resultant (new) molecule.
The suffix ''-yl'' is used when naming organic compounds that contain a single bond r ...
s of
hydrogen
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s of
ammonia
Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the chemical formula, formula . A Binary compounds of hydrogen, stable binary hydride and the simplest pnictogen hydride, ammonia is a colourless gas with a distinctive pu ...
, fluoroamine and
difluoramine , an example being
perfluorotributylamine and
perfluoromethyldiethylamine .
The term fluoroamine may also refer to organyl substituents of hydrogens of fluoroamine.
References
External links
WebBook page for NH2FMonofluoroamine(PubChem page at U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Fluorides
Nitrogen halides
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