Energetic Compounds 3 A -Heterocycles

Until the end of the First World War the main filling for mass ordnance was TNT and its mixtures with ammonium nitrate known as Amatols. During this period improved methods for the manufacture of RDX enabled its inclusion in munitions, usually in formulation with TNT in the form of the Cyclotols. RDX and its mixtures are still the most widely used explosives for military use. 

Organic Chemistry of Explosives 2007 John Wiley Sons, Ltd. 

Vast research efforts have been pooled into finding new energetic V-heterocycles over the past 30 years and, consequently, the number of reported compounds is huge. It is quite impossible to discuss all the materials reported in this area in the space available. We personally believe that V-heterocycles should be the subject of its own book and this may well be the case in the future. We draw the reader to a number of excellent reviews, which together cover most of the past and present literature on V-heterocycles. 

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