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Nitryl azide ( tetranitrogen dioxide) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula . It is an unstable nitrogen oxide consisting of a covalent nitrogen–nitrogen bond between a nitro compound and an azide group. It has been detected by infrared spectroscopy as a short-lived product of the reaction between sodium azide and nitronium hexafluoroantimonate:
The compound quickly decomposes to form nitrous oxide. Calculations suggest that this process occurs via an oxatetrazole oxide intermediate:
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