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4,4,8,8‐Tetranitroadamantane‐2,6‐diyl Dinitrate: A High‐Density Energetic Material
Author(s) -
Ling Yifei,
Ren Xiaoli,
Lai Weipeng,
Luo Jun
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1099-0690
pISSN - 1434-193X
DOI - 10.1002/ejoc.201403449
Subject(s) - chemistry , steric effects , detonation , thermal stability , methylene , adamantane , thermal , computational chemistry , energetic material , density functional theory , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , explosive material
The novel high‐performance energetic material 4,4,8,8‐tetranitroadamantane‐2,6‐diyl dinitrate has been synthesized and fully characterized. The synthetic strategy features the construction of the adamantane skeleton with different functional groups at adjacent methylene carbon atoms to overcome the problems associated with the ortho effect and steric crowding, and is amenable to the synthesis of other polynitroadamantanes. The experimentally determined physical properties as well as the calculated detonation properties indicate that this compound exhibits high thermal stability (220 °C), high density (1.852 g cm –3 ), and excellent detonation velocities (8529 m s –1 ) and pressures (33.43 GPa).