FLUORODINITROMETHYL COMPOUNDS

Metal Fulminates or aci - nitro salts Fluorodinitromethyl compounds... 

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Outstandingly explosive among fluorodinitromethyl compounds, samples stored neat at ambient temperatures regularly exploded within a few horns. Occasionally, concentrated solutions in dichloromethane have decomposed violently after long storage. 

See also endothermic compounds, fluorodinitromethyl compounds (reference 6)... 

Fluoro-2,2-dinitroethanol, the methylol derivative of fluorodinitromethane, has been used extensively for the synthesis of fluorodinitromethyl compounds. The fluorine atom is similar in size to that of a proton and so rotation in the fluorodinitromethyl group is much less hindered compared to the trinitromethyl group. Consequently, these compounds are far less sensitive to impact than trinitromethyl compounds but only slightly less energetic. The explosive performance of fluorodinitromethyl compounds has been reviewed. ... 

It is a potentially explosive vesicant, from which a series of esters, expected to be explosive, was prepared [1], During concentration of a dichloromethane solution, there is a sensitivity maximum between 30% solution and the pure compound [2]. See other FLUORODINITROMETHYL COMPOUNDS, POLYNITROALKYL COMPOUNDS... 

See other FLUORODINITROMETHYL COMPOUNDS, ORGANIC BASES fl456. Ethyl trifluoroacetate... 

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