화학공학소재연구정보센터
Propellants Explosives Pyrotechnics, Vol.37, No.1, 40-51, 2012
New Takes on Nitrate Ester Chemistry: Salts with Oxygen-Rich Ammonium Cations
Nitrate (anion) salts with nitroxy-functionalized ammonium cations were synthesized. Several revealed surprising thermal and hydrolytic stability. Various physical properties were measured, and Gibbs free energy (?Gr(298)) differences between the salts and postulated products of their thermal decomposition were computed. The computed differences indicate that salts with cations that have more than one nitroxy group are endothermic at 298 K. Nevertheless, the stability observed for some salts with this property indicates that kinetic barriers are sufficient to prevent facile decomposition at this temperature. This is in contrast to the case observed for nitrate salts of nitroxy-functionalized ammonium cations with acidic protons.