Hexamine is a nitrogenous analogue of adamantane.
The coolest thing about it is the exceptionally stable adamantyl-type system assembles on its own if you just mix ammonia and formaldehyde gas. It's got loads of uses, from little fuel tabs for stoves, to a component of explosive mixtures, to deodorant in China (anyone care to elaborate?)
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Will hexamine co-crystallize with CBr_4 to give a very porous open network with N->Br donation at the organic tecton's vertices?
Substitute a mole of SO_2(NH_2)_2 for each two moles of ammonia. Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine is remarkably toxic.
No nice graphics for how it self-assemblies? What does it do? I'd say it would not form vesicles, bilayers etc...
Ohh how I love hexamine....
the lone pair on the nitrogen in NH3 acts as a strong nucleophile towards the delta-positive carbonyl in H2CO (formaldehyde), and NH3 is acidic enough to protonate the carbonyl oxygen (so it can eliminate as water).
Cool example.