Metazonic acid salts

Other slyphnates Lead dinitroresorcinale Nitrosophcnol salts Nitraminc salts Salts of metazonic acid Salts of oxalic acid Peroxides... 

It is produced by the action of sodium hydroxide on nitromethane at an elevated temperature (Friese [72] Steinkopf and Kirchhoff [73]). Urbanski and Kowalczyk [74] found that some heavy metal salts of this compound have weak initiating properties and that metazonic acid itself is a fairly weak explosive. Its expansion in the lead block is 240 cm3. 

A convenient preparative method for the synthesis of 2-substituted 4-nitro-l,2,3-triazoles is based on the condensation of diazonium salts with metazonic acid. The latter is in turn synthesized by the action of alkali on nitromethane [423,508-510] (Scheme 78). 

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