Chemistry:Trithiazyl trichloride

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Trithiazyl trichloride
Names
Other names
thionitrosyl chloride
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChemSpider
Properties[1][2]
(NSCl)
3
Molar mass 244.55 g·mol−1
Appearance pale yellow solid
Melting point Decomposes at 91 °C (196 °F; 364 K)
Solubility soluble in CCl
4
, CS
2
, benzene, toluene, THF
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
Infobox references

Trithiazyl trichloride is the inorganic compound with the formula (NSCl)
3
. A pale yellow solid, it is a precursor to other sulfur nitrides,[1] but has no commercial applications.

Structure

The molecule is a 6-membered ring of alternating nitrogen and sulfur atoms, where each sulfur atom is attached to one chlorine atom by a single bond. The molecule contains alternating single and double bonds in the S
3
N
3
core. The molecule has C3v symmetry. The S
3
N
3
core is slightly ruffled structure with S-N distances of 160.5 pm. The S-Cl distances are 208 pm, and the chlorine atoms are mutually cis. The S centers are tetravalent and pyramidal. In contrast, with six fewer electrons, cyanuric chloride is a planar ring.[3][4]

Synthesis and reactions

Trithiazyl trichloride is obtained by chlorination of tetrasulfur tetranitride or thiazyl fluoride monomer:[5]

3 S
4
N
4
+ 6 Cl
2
→ 4 (NSCl)
3
3 FSN + 3 Cl
2
→ (NSCl)
3
+ 3 ClF

At 100 °C in vacuum, thiazyl chloride trimer undergoes cracking to thiazyl chloride monomer, which is a green gas.

(–N=S(–Cl)–)
3
→ 3 N≡S–Cl

In N≡S−Cl, chlorine is bonded to sulfur, in contrast to nitrosyl chloride O=N–Cl, where chlorine is bonded to nitrogen.[3][4]

Alkoxide or silver salts displace the chlorides:[6]

(–NS(Cl)–)3 + 3 NaOR → (–NS(OR)–)3 + 3 NaCl
(–NS(Cl)–)3 + 3 AgX → (–NS(X)–)3 + 3 AgCl

Treating thiazyl chloride with sulfur in the presence of antimony pentachloride gives dithionitronium hexachloroantimonate:[7]

SNCl + S + SbCl
5
→ [NS
2
]SbCl
6

It reacts with nitriles to dithiadiazolium chlorides:[3]

6 RCN + 4 (NSCl)
3
→ 6 [RCN
2
S
2
]+
Cl−
+ 3 Cl
2
+ 3 N
2

Sulfur trioxide successively oxidizes the compound at the sulfur atoms to (NSOCl)
3
.[5] The latter is also the pyrolysis product of a mixture of phosphorus pentachloride and sulfamic acid. In principle, it exists as stereoisomers, but only one (all chlorides axial) had been isolated by 1979.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jolly, William L.; Maguire, Keith D. (1967). "Sulfur Nitrogen Chlorides". Inorganic Syntheses. IX. p. 102. doi:10.1002/9780470132401.ch27. ISBN 978-0-470-13240-1. 
  2. ↑ Rees, Charles W.; Yue, Tai-Yuen (15 October 2003). "Trithiazyl Trichloride". Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. doi:10.1002/047084289X.rn00297. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wiegers, G. A.; Vos, A. (1966). "The Crystal Structures of Two Sulfur-Nitrogen Compounds with (S-N)3 Rings. II. Trithiazylchloride, (NSCl)3, at -130 C". Acta Crystallographica 20 (2): 192. doi:10.1107/s0365110x66000410. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Roesky, H. W. (1971). "The Sulfur–Nitrogen Bond". in Senning, Alexander. Sulfur in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry. 1. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 20–23. ISBN 0-8247-1615-9. 
  6. ↑ Rawson, Jeremy M.; Banister, Arthur J.; Lavender, Ian (1995). "The Chemistry of Dithiadiazolylium and Dithiadiazolyl Rings". Adv. Heterocyc. Chem. 62: 146–147. doi:10.1016/S0065-2725(08)60422-5. 
  7. ↑ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8. 
  8. ↑ Roesky, H. W. (1979). "Cyclic sulfur-nitrogen compounds". Advances in Inorganic Chemistry and Radiochemistry (Academic Press) 22. doi:10.1016/S0065-2792(08)60083-7.