Reactions of N-propargyltriflamide TfNHCH 2 C≡CH (Tf = CF 3 SO 2 ) with allyl bromide or propargyl bromide in DMSO afforded highly unsaturated triflamide derivatives: N-allyl-N-propargyltriflamide TfN· (CH 2 CH=CH 2 )(CH 2 C≡CH), N-allenyl-N-allyltriflamide TfN(CH 2 CH=CH 2 )(CH=C=CH 2 ), and N-allenyl-Npropargyltriflamide TfN(CH=C=CH 2 )(CH 2 C≡CH). By the reaction of triflamide with propargyl bromide in DMSO N,N-dipropargyltriflamide TfN(CH 2 C≡CH) 2 was obtained, which under the treatment with t-BuOK in DMSO underwent isomerization giving an equilibrium mixture with N-allenyl-N-propargyltriflamide TfN (CH 2 C≡CH)(CH=C=CH 2 ) in a ratio 85 : 15. Unsaturated derivatives of trifluoromethanesulfonamide were unknown till recently. Moreover, scanty publications appeared on N-alkenyl-substituted nonfluorinated sulfonamides RSO 2 N(R)-C(R')=C<. The only published data concerned the hydrostannylation of N-tosyl-substituted ynamines TsN(Bn)C≡CSiMe 3 [1] and TsN(Bn)C≡CH [2] resulting in N-tosylsubstituted enamines TsN(Bn)C(SnBu 3 )=CHSiMe 3 [1]and TsN(Bn)C(SnBu 3 )=CH 2 respectively, the coupling of the latter with diverse organyl halides RX afforded N-benzyl-N-(1-R-vinyl)tosylamides TsN(Bn)C(R) =CH 2 , and also the formation of N-alkenylsultams from their N-alkynyl precursors was described [3]. Recently, we have prepared by dehydrobromination of N-(2-bromo-2-phenylethyl)-N-(methyl)-trifluoromethane-sulfonamide CF 3 SO 2 N(Me)CH 2 CHBrPh the first representative of N-alkenyl-substituted trifluoromethanesulfonamides containing a double bond at the nitrogen atom: N-methyl-N-[(E)-2-phenylethenyl]trifluoromethanesulfonamide CF 3 SO 2 N(Me)CH=CHPh [4]. We failed to obtain its NH-analog by a similar procedure: Dehydrobromination of N-(2-bromo-2-phenylethyl)-trifluoromethanesulfonamide with trimethylamine yielded the product of cyclodimerization, 2,5-diphenyl-1,4-bis(trifluoromethyl-sulfonyl)-piperazine [5].Other attempts to prepare unsaturated triflamide derivatives by reacting triflamide or its sodium salt with vinyl bromide or chloroacetylene in DMSO, or by a direct vinylation with acetylene under various conditions (in DMSO with KOH and with t-BuOK, with CdO or CuCl additive, with potassium metal in dioxane, at 100-200°C, for 2-5 h) were unsuccessful, always unreacted triflamide was recovered. Apparently, the failure was due both to the extremely low nucleophilicity of the nitrogen atom in the triflamide and to the low reactivity of the non-activated vinyl halides.Considering that N-sulfinyltriflamide CF 3 SO 2 N=S=O readily reacted with aldehydes [6-8] we regarded as an interesting approach the ketene synthesis which after isomerization might lead to the formation of the simplest acetylenic triflamide.However passing the ketene flow obtained by acetone thermal decomposition through a solution of CF 3 SO 2 NSO in THF also failed to provide the target product; only the initial triflamide was isolated.Later we prepared other N-vinyl- [9] and N-allylsubstituted triflamides [10,11] containing one double bond, i.e., possessing t...