Nitroamine

Not to be confused with Nitrosamine.

In organic and inorganic chemistry, nitroamines or nitramides are chemical compounds with the general chemical structure R¹R²N−NO₂. They consist of a nitro group (−NO₂) bonded to the nitrogen of an amine.^[1][2] The R groups can be any group, typically hydrogen (e.g., methylnitroamine CH₃−NH−NO₂) and organyl (e.g., diethylnitroamine (CH₃CH₂−)₂N−NO₂). An example of inorganic nitroamine is chloronitroamine, Cl−NH−NO₂.^[3] The parent inorganic compound, where both R substituents are hydrogen, is nitramide or nitroamine, H₂N−NO₂.

Structure of the nitroamino group, >N−NO₂, here bonded to two R groups

N-Nitroaniline rearranges in the presence of acid to give 2-nitroaniline.^[4]