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Published on: June 23, 2023
High-performing, insensitive and thermally stable energetic materials from zwitterionic gem-dinitromethyl substituted
Abhishek Kumar Yadav1, Manojkumar Jujam1, Vikas D Ghule2
1Energetic Materials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India. srinivasd@iitk.ac.in.
Abstract:
A series of gem-dinitromethyl substituted zwitterionic C-C bonded azole based energetic materials (3-8) were designed, synthesized, and characterized through NMR, IR, EA, and DSC studies. Further, the structure of 5 was confirmed with SCXRD and those of 6 and 8 with 15N NMR. All the newly synthesized energetic molecules exhibited higher density, good thermal stability, excellent detonation performance, and low mechanical sensitivity to external stimuli such as impact and friction. Among all, compounds 6 and 7 may serve as ideal secondary high energy density materials due to their remarkable thermal decomposition (200 °C and 186 °C), insensitivity to impact (>30 J), velocity of detonation (9248 m s-1 and 8861 m s-1) and pressure (32.7 GPa and 32.1 GPa). Additionally, the melting and decomposition temperatures of 3 (Tm = 92 °C, Td = 242 °C) indicate that it can be used as a melt-cast explosive. The novelty, synthetic feasibility, and energetic performance of all the molecules suggest that they can be used as potential secondary explosives in defence and civilian fields.
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