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TEX – 4,10‐Dinitro‐2,6,8,12‐tetraoxa‐4,10‐diazatetracyclo[5.5.0.0 5,9 .0 3,11 ]‐dodecane – Review of a Promising High Density Insensitive Energetic Material
Author(s) -
Koch ErnstChristian
Publication year - 2015
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.201400195
Subject(s) - explosive material , dodecane , detonation , yield (engineering) , thermal , materials science , crystal (programming language) , analytical chemistry (journal) , chemistry , physics , nuclear chemistry , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , composite material , computer science , programming language
The title compound 4,10‐dinitro‐2,6,8,12‐tetraoxa‐4,10‐diazatetracyclo[5.5.0.0 5,9 0 3,11 ]‐dodecane – often referred to as TEX – is a very promising newcomer in the field of insensitive explosives. It is easily synthesized with good yield from cheap starting materials. TEX offers a respectable high ambient temperature crystal density (1.985 g cm −3 ) and hence good detonation velocity and pressure but is fairly insensitive towards mechanical and thermal stimuli. It has a large critical diameter and is advantageously used in large charges. 76 references to the public domain are given.