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Introducing NOB-NOBs: nitrogen-oxygen-boron cycles with potential high-energy properties
Aloysus K Lawong1, David W Ball
1Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA.
Abstract:
As a follow-up on a study of a family of boron-oxygen-nitrogen compounds composed of two datively bonded B-O-N backbones, we investigate a similar series of compounds that have similar fragments but are covalently bonded. B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) quantum mechanical calculations have been performed to determine the minimum-energy geometries, vibrational frequencies, and thermochemical properties of the parent compound and a series of nitro-substituted derivatives. Our results indicate that some of the derivatives have at least appropriate thermodynamics for possible high-energy materials, in some cases being favorable over similar dimeric compounds with coordinate covalent B-N bonds.
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