Lactose Hexanitrate

Lactose Hexanitrate, C12H1605(0N02)6 a white amorphous material with mp about, 70°, was isolated from the ale mother liquors in the crystn of the octanitrate (Ref 6). It is a less powerful expl than the octa-compd... 

Lactose hexanitrate, C12Hie05 (0N02) , has been found in the alcoholic mother liquors from the crystallization of the octonitrate, white, amorphous material melting not sharply at about 70°. 

Dulcit in Ger), HO.CH2(CHOH)4.CH2.OH mw 182.17, colorless monoclinic crysts, d 1.466 at 15/4°, mp 188.5°, bp — dec sol in hot w, si sol in cold w v si sol in ale, insol in ether. It occurs naturally in Madagascar manna, from which it. can be extracted with water can also be obtd by treating aqueous sol of lactose or of d-galactose with sodium amalgam. When treated with nitric.acid or with mixed nitric-sulfuric acids it forms nitrates of which tetra-, penta- and hexanitrates are explosive Refs 1) Beil. 1, 544, (286), [612] (24051 2) CondChemDict (1961), p424... 

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