Sciencemadness Discussion Board

Hydroxylamine and Sulfur Dioxide

jimmyboy - 9-2-2009 at 13:38

I was interested in what would happen if you bubbled sulfur dioxide into a solution of sodium nitrite - the only reference I came up with after a few hours is

ammonium nitrite + sulfur dioxide = hydroxylamine diammonium sulfate with ammonium sulfate as a byproduct

anyone have more insights in this reaction?
sulfur dioxide likes to reduce in some cases and in others oxidize so its kind of tricky to tell but I am leaning towards nitrogen will be produced and sodium sulfite will precipitate

roamingnome - 9-2-2009 at 20:06

Preparation of Hydroxylamine Using Liquid Sulfur Dioxide

http://ir.library.tohoku.ac.jp/re/bitstream/10097/26735/1/KJ...

this is pretty much it..no

SO2 has really caught my interest as im trying to bubble into nitric to prepare nitrosyl sulfate
now this ..great stuff pollution is