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Microwave‐Assisted Quick Synthesis of Some Potential High Explosives
Author(s) -
Saikia Ananta,
Sivabalan Renganathan,
Gore Girish M.,
Sikder Arun K.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.56
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1521-4087
pISSN - 0721-3115
DOI - 10.1002/prep.201100107
Subject(s) - explosive material , microwave , nitroimidazole , microwave irradiation , microwave heating , nitro , materials science , analytical chemistry (journal) , combinatorial chemistry , nuclear chemistry , chemistry , organic chemistry , computer science , telecommunications , alkyl
This paper reports a novel microwave‐assisted method for the synthesis of potential high explosives (HEs) such as 3‐nitro‐1,2,4‐triazol‐5‐one (NTO), bis‐(2,2‐dinitropropyl) nitramine (BDNPN), 4‐nitroimidazole (4‐NI) and 2,4,6,8,10,12‐hexanitro‐2,4,6,8,10,12‐hexaazaisowurtzitane (CL‐20). The high temperature thermal rearrangement of 1,4‐dinitroimidazole to 2,4‐dinitroimidazole was also reported using microwave radiation as heating source. The synthesized compounds were characterized by spectroscopic techniques and the data obtained confirmed their structures.