Talk:Nitroso

Propose to merge Nitrosyl and Nitroso

Suggestions? Comments? Objections? These articles describe what appear to be the same thing, but maybe I am missing something.

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Here's the Gold Book definition: http://goldbook.iupac.org/N04169.html

I don't mind whether we merge the articles or not. If merging means that the content improves in quality, then great!

Ben 23:43, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

No problems here. Went ahead and added the merge tag. shoy 17:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

• yep clearly identical topics: go ahead V8rik 21:05, 24 March 2007 (UTC) On the other hand one is inorg and the other org, so lets keep them separate. V8rik 16:39, 29 June 2007

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I merged both articles and explained the org/inorg specificity Corpet (talk) 10:20, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Nitrosation vs. nitrosylation figures

n-phenylnitrosoamine ought to be changed into N-phenylnitrosamine. A capital N is used to indicate that the phenyl group bind to a nitrogen atom. Possibly the N should be numbered to indicate which nitrogen atom but this is probably superfluous since the phenyl cannot be substituted on the other nitrogen at least not without changing the molecule from a nirosamine into something else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.227.15.253 (talk) 09:55, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Correction needed

I'm pretty sure the line "Nitroso compounds react with primary amines in acidic environments to form nitrosamines..." is incorrect and it should instead read "...react with secondary amines to form..."

Nitroso- compounds + aliphatic primary amines typically form alcohols or alkenes via a diazo intermediate that loses N₂ ~2026-97310-3 (talk) 07:47, 13 February 2026 (UTC)