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Jake E Zuckerman1,2, Montgomery C St Myer1,2, Matthias Zeller3
1School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, 701 W. Stadium Avenue, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA.
Abstract:
The reaction of cyanogen azide with strained-ring containing primary and secondary amines led to the isolation of energetic molecules deriving their energy content from both strained rings as well as aminotetrazoles. Azo-coupling of these materials afforded novel high-nitrogen energetic materials of very high sensitivity. All compounds were chemically characterized by IR, NMR, single-crystal X-ray crystallography, and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Their impact and friction sensitivities were experimentally determined, and their energetic performances were calculated.
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