“…The most widely used HNO donor is Angeli's salt (diazen‐1‐ium‐1,2,2‐triolate, Na 2 N 2 O 3 , AS) . Other well‐established HNO donors are the N ‐hydroxysulphonamides methanesulphohydroxamic acid (CH 3 SO 2 NHOH, MSHA) and benzenesulphohydroxamic acid, Piloty's acid (C 6 H 5 SO 2 NHOH, PA) . In contrast to AS which spontaneously decomposes to release HNO at neutral pH conditions, a major drawback of PA and MSHA is that alkaline conditions are required for the deprotonation and subsequent release of HNO from these molecules (Scheme , p K a (PA)=9.29; pK a (MSHA)=9.95) …”