US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Sury Iyer

Paritosh R Dave

Farhad Forohar

Reddy Damavarapu

Abdollah Bashir-Hashemi

Theodore Vladimiroff

Keerti Jayasuriya

Sreenivasa R Eturi

A novel cyclotetraphosphazene compound, 1,1-diamino-3,3,5,5,7,7-hexaazidocyclotetraphosphazene, is disclosed which has application as an energetic compound and percussion primer. Also disclosed is a method of preparing the compound.

Substituted cyclotetraphophazene compound and method of producing the same

A novel cyclotetraphosphazene compound, 1,5-diamino-1,3,3,5,7,7-hexaazidocyclotetraphosphazene, is disclosed which has application as an energetic compound. Also disclosed is a method of preparing the compound.

Substituted cyclotetraphosphazene compound and method of producing the same

The present invention is directed to the synthesis of useful products from the explosive trinitrotoluene. This substance has a limited shelf life as a reliable explosive and large quantities of it have and will become surplus. Ecologically safe, and preferably commercially useful ways of disposing of it are therefore much to be desired. In the present invention the end products are nitroindoles of the general formula 4-Z.sup.1,6-Z.sup.2 indole wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are the same or different and are halo or nitro provided at least one of said groups is nitro.

Conversion of trinitrotoluene into high value compounds

The compound 2,4-dinitroimidazole is highly insensitive towards impact and its thermal stability is excellent. The calculated detonation properties results indicate that its performance is about 30% better than TATB. It can be prepared easily with good yield starting from inexpensive starting materials. Results from impact sensitivity, friction sensitivity time-to-explosion temperature and vacuum stability tests indicate that 2,4-dinitroimidazole is less sensitive than both RDX and HMX. Its good oxygen balance and measured heat of formation data of this material indicate that its propellant performance is good.

2,4-dinitroimidazole- a less sensitive explosive and propellant made by

Polymer bonded nitramine based explosives and propellants are prepared by diation polymerization of a polymer precurser, such as methyl methacrylate, in mixture with a particulate nitramine, e.g. RDX, wherein the nitramine particles are coated with an effective amount of a liquid polyhydric alcohol for overcoming the action of the nitramine to inhibit or retard such radiation polymerization.

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