Super-high-energy materials based on bis(2,2-dinitroethyl)nitramine

Abstract

Novel super-highly energetic bis(2,2-dinitroethyl)nitramine-based salts exhibiting excellent physical and detonation properties, such as low solubility in common solvents, moderate thermal stabilities, high densities, high detonation pressures and detonation velocities, were synthesized and fully characterized. The densities of the energetic salts range between 1.77 and 2.02 g cm⁻³ as measured using a gas pycnometer. The detonation pressures and velocities as calculated by the EXPLO5 code are in the range 31.5–46.2 GPa and 8586–10 004 m s⁻¹, which make them competitive super-highly energetic materials.