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Research and Development of High-performance Explosives
Published on: February 20, 2016
Catenated nitrogen-rich triazine-tetrazole molecules for advanced explosives and gas-generator applications
Manojkumar Jujam1, Vikas D Ghule2, Srinivas Dharavath1
1Energetic Materials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India. srinivasd@iitk.ac.in.
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Catenated nitrogen-rich energetic materials are essential for gas-generating and high-energy-density applications. Here, we developed two novel compounds: tricyclic compound 5 with 4+3+3 nitrogen catenation and tetracyclic compound 8 with 4+4+3+3 catenation. Both are fully characterized and exhibit high densities (1.83 and 1.80 g cm-3), good thermal stabilities (176 and 188 °C), good detonation velocities (7794 and 7935 m s-1) and pressures (22.9 and 24.3 GPa), and high insensitivity, and compound 8 shows favourable DDT behaviour as an initiator.
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