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Yunfei An1, Wei Hu1, Caijin Lei1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Xiaolingwei 200, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, China.
Abstract:
To mitigate the inherent trade-off between energy and safety in 1,2,4-oxadiazole biheterocyclic energetic materials, the imidazole unit was incorporated into their framework to enhance stability. In this study, a series of insensitive (IS > 20 J, FS > 240 N) imidazole-1,2,4-oxadiazole energetic derivatives 6-10 and 12 with high energy (Dv: 7966-8995 m·s-1) have been synthesized and further characterized. Among them, the nitroamino compound 8 exhibits the highest detonation performance (Dv = 8995 m·s-1), higher than that of RDX (Dv = 8795 m·s-1). Furthermore, compound 8 (IS = 25 J, FS = 240 N, Td = 185 °C) also demonstrates insensitivity and high thermal stability, outperforming the currently reported 1,2,4-oxadiazole nitroamino compounds. The carbonyl compound 9 shows better overall performance. It has favorable safety characteristics, including low sensitivity (IS = 30 J, FS = 324 N) and a higher thermal decomposition temperature (Td = 248 °C). Moreover, the detonation performance (Dv = 8396 m·s-1) significantly exceeds that of TNT (Dv = 6881 m·s-1). The results indicate that the imidazole-1,2,4-oxadiazole framework could serve as a promising candidate for constructing high-energy and insensitive energetic materials.
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