Energetic salts of azotetrazolate, iminobis(5-tetrazolate) and 5, 5'-bis(tetrazolate)

Chengfeng Ye; Ji-Chang Xiao; Brendan Twamley; Jean'ne M Shreeve

doi:10.1039/b502583d

Energetic salts of azotetrazolate, iminobis(5-tetrazolate) and 5, 5'-bis(tetrazolate)

Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Jun 7:(21):2750-2. doi: 10.1039/b502583d. Epub 2005 Apr 20.

Authors

Chengfeng Ye¹, Ji-Chang Xiao, Brendan Twamley, Jean'ne M Shreeve

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844-2343, USA.

PMID: 15917942
DOI: 10.1039/b502583d

Abstract

Energetic ionic salts of azotetrazolate (AT), iminobis(5-tetrazolate) (IBT) and 5, 5'-bis(tetrazole) (BT) were synthesized; 1-methyl-4-aminotriazolium azotetrazolate has a layered structure and exhibits a heat of formation of +4360 kJ kg(-1).