The synthesis and properties of a new class of inorganic salts, named pentafluorosulfanylnitramide salts (orpentafluorosulfanylnitraminic acid salts) [Z
+SF
5NNO
2-], are described. A number of SF
5-nitramide salts(Z
+SF
5NNO
2-) were successfully prepared via nucleophilic displacements from carbamates and/or ion exchangetechniques, but some salts [M(SF
5NNO
2)
x; M = Li, Mg, Al] decomposed during isolation procedures and appearto be unstable in the solid state. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction was used to fully characterize the Z
+SF
5NNO
2-,and their properties/structures are compared with those of the corresponding dinitramide salts (or dinitraminicacid salts), Z
+N(NO
2)
2-. X-ray crystallography revealed major structural differences between N(NO
2)
2- andSF
5N(NO
2)
- salts concerning the N-N distances and the angles subtended at the central nitrogen atom. In theN(NO
2)
2- salts, there are two nonequivalent N-N (average lengths 1.372(2) and 1.354(2) Å) distances and anaverage N-N-N angle of 115.8(3)
(falls between sp
3 and sp
2 hybridization). In the SF
5NNO
2- salts, the averageN-N distance is much shorter, 1.308(9) Å, and the average N-N-S angle is 120.0(5)
(closely fits sp
2hybridization). The SF
5NNO
2- salts show a remarkable metrical similarity for the SF
5 moiety in all structures,indicating a lack of sensitivity to its steric and electronic environment. This is in marked contrast to N(NO
2)
2-,where there is a wide variation in conformations adopted by these anions which can be related to their environment.