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  • Computational Chemistry
  • Chemical Engineering

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  • Predicting the handling sensitivity of organic energetic materials is crucial for safety.
  • Existing explosives like nitroglycerin, erythritol tetranitrate (ETN), and pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) have well-defined sensitivity characteristics.
  • Developing new energetic materials requires accurate methods to assess their safety and performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize and characterize novel nitropicramide energetic materials.
  • To computationally investigate the handling sensitivity and explosion enthalpies of these new compounds.
  • To identify the specific chemical bonds responsible for initiating decomposition (trigger linkages).

Main Methods:

  • Synthesis and characterization of six new nitropicramide compounds.
  • Quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) simulations to model molecular behavior.
  • Density functional theory (DFT) calculations to determine bond energies and reaction pathways.
  • Comparison of theoretical predictions with experimental drop weight impact sensitivity data.

Main Results:

  • The synthesized nitropicramides exhibit mixed functional groups, mimicking established explosives.
  • QMD and DFT calculations identified nitropicramide N-NO2 bonds as the primary trigger linkages, unlike the O-NO2 bonds in conventional explosives.
  • Calculated sensitivities closely matched experimental impact sensitivity data, indicating similar handling characteristics among the new compounds.
  • The electron-withdrawing nature of adjacent trinitrobenzene groups was proposed as the reason for the N-NO2 bond acting as the trigger linkage.

Conclusions:

  • The study successfully synthesized and characterized new nitropicramide energetic materials.
  • Computational methods accurately predict the handling sensitivity of these materials.
  • A novel trigger linkage mechanism (N-NO2) was identified in nitropicramides, offering insights into the design of safer energetic materials.